Trades

Not enough in every case.

You're close in value for the players possibly, but not the retention. And theres not enough "meat" for any of those teams to accept, rather than get other (and better) offers.

The BOS deal: sure BOS would love to move Reilly, but eat 1mil and ADD Smith to the deal, for just taking back an equally overpaid/underachieving Engvall?

“Really think the bruins are a good trade partner,” is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever read.

Both capped out
Both contenders
Both in the same division
Recent rivalry
Recent playoff meetings

They quite literally could not be worse trade partners. Weird, and kinda baffling take. Those two GMs wouldn’t even contact each other.

Dude, Muzzin is all but confirmed done for the season leafs have 5 mil ltir space to work with. Contenders make trades with each other all the time, look at Minnesota and Colorado last year. Leafs already could’ve had Reilly for free if they weren’t maxed on contract spots.

You don’t see Reilly as a negative asset for Bruins at this point tho? That was the logic behind the deal since Reilly counts as 2mil against theyre cap in the minors retaining the mil wouldn’t hurt them at all. Also what do you think Horvat gets for a return? Lehkonen got a 2nd plus A prospect ontop of 50% retention.

Minnesota and Colorado are not boston and toronto. Tyson jost and nico sturm were just two guys that sucked swapped for each other, not a two for one swap all with players at drastically different stages of their career (side note: there is a 0% chance of the bruins retaining on reilly. It’s just flat out illogical to an extreme).

When was the last time the bruins and leafs made a trade? 2010 when the bruins were cup bound and the leafs were horrible?

No, these trades dont happen. There’s probably 3-5 other teams on the same level as the bruins in terms of least likely trade partners. Categorize it under a snowballs chance in hell. No shot.