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Toronto would never make that trade this off-season. It makes their current roster worse and they're a playoff team, not just starting a rebuild. Pouliot may eventually turn into an NHL regular, but now he clearly belongs in the AHL. If Toronto regresses and is a seller at the '18 deadline, only then does this trade look reasonable. (Pens give up Haglelin to make salaries work).
NickC is likely underestimating Fleury's trade value during the off-season (which is totally different compared to the in-season deadline), but he's still probably only worth a 3rd or 4th rounder at best. But ignoring the price of acquiring Fleury... why would Vancouver even want him? Markstrom is fine and cheap. The slight upgrade they'd get in goal with Fleury isn't worth much to a team that still has a lot of other high priced talent on their roster and lots of RFA's to sign.