What is Nashville getting out of the deal?

Liljegren is not getting you a 2nd and 4th round picks.

He's a part time player on a team who's defense is suspect at best.

It's been 7 years since he's been drafted. The shine of being a first round pick has worn off.

He's analytically very solid. Even his scouting report on capfriendly has him listed as a 2nd line D. His problem in Toronto isn't that he isn't good. It's that he can't play with Rielly and that has really limited him in terms of fitting into the D corps since the 2RD spot has always been filled and he style doesn't match what Toronto wants on their third pair.

When Rielly was out last year and this year he was on the top pair as was pretty dominant. Had 8 points in the 7 games Rielly didn't play this year where he was the #1 for Toronto. Similar story in 2022 I think it was like 15 points in the 23 games Rielly missed (a large reason why Toronto felt they could move on from Sandin).

Not getting clarke

Trade is:

LA gets:
Marner (50% retained)
Saros

TOR gets:
Clarke

NSH gets:
Fiala
Moore
50% of Marner's Salary

Woof, LA passes. We would much rather have Fiala, Moore, and Clarke who are known commodities, than Saros and Marner who have not indicated that they won't test the free market.

Toronto won the analytics cup the last 4 yrs. Did you have a parade?
Liljigren is a 3rd pair guy no more.. you should have moved him last summer