a swap between rivals

Team: 2021-22 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: Feb. 21, 2022

Published: Feb. 21, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

I made this based on the recent rumour that Elliotte Friedman supposedly dropped recently about how the Habs have been receiving interest in Josh Anderson from other teams and that he's getting mixed signals on whether the Habs management consider him part of the teams future, alas I made a trade that the habs would surely love and would make Leafs fans shake at the sight of this cap hits problems next year LOL, but! and its a big but, a way the Leafs could make cap room next year could be to ship out an aging Jake Muzzin, no he doesn't deserve all the criticism of the leafs defensive woes recently but there's an argument to be made that as he gets older and more injury prone his contract aint looking good either, a trade package of him and Mikheyev in the offseason for a boat load of picks and some decent enough prospects they can bury in the minors for a few seasons wouldn't be such a bad idea, and at least for those few years it erases Rielly's raise on the cap AND gives the Leafs room to re-sign ALL of Sandin, Liljegren, Kase, Lyubushkin, and Campbell, keeping their defensive core intact for years to come. WHY NOT!?! it surely sets up the Leafs for playoff success, and as for the Habs in the meantime, they get some decent players to do with as they please as they work on a rebuild after the disaster of a season this year has been, everyone wins in my eyes to be honest