Most Realistic Team You Will Ever See

AJ deal is right in the ballpark. Smack dab in the middle between Kreider and Connor Brown's contracts after their ELCs.

Zacha and a 2nd is fine for Kap, and the Kadri trade is a little light. The 1st is nice, but Ratcliffe isnt really worth a lot, he is producing in the OHL, but he's an overager so it doesnt really mean a ton. Ratcliffe is basically as valuable as Justin Brazeau at this point, who the leafs just snagged for free. Between those two trades the leafs should be able to get a 3C and a #4/5 D with some upside. Can let hainsey walk / move brown to make that work.

I don't think you can really say anything bad about this. I am not sure I'd move Kadri though, he's in the same boat as Zaitsev. If you move him, you will find savings but you have a big hole that you'd have to fill. I'd sooner trade Brown for a 3rd and keep Kadri. Its a lot tighter but its still doable. I am good with the Kap trade though.

LMFAO, nice hot take on Ratcliffe, hilariously wrong, but nice take...

Is moving Kadri really creating a hole if you can put a good 3C player in who will actually play some playoff games when the time comes?

Zacha is still young so he could progress and you'd be banking on that. However, Kadri has scored 30 goals twice and is currently a lot better than Zacha, so you are taking a big step backwards down the middle. At the same time you still have Nylander who can play centre as well, but I'd prefer him playing with Matthews since Matthews needs someone to feed him the puck.

All around this isn't bad, I will give credit where credit is due.

Personally I'm just not sure it makes sense to down grade the centre ice as much as this does. Especially if you can move Brown and likely be under the cap keeping Kadri. In that scenario, you now have another potential centre on the team and if injuries happen or someone gets suspended again like an idiot, you can have Zacha there to slide to centre.