Leafs

Hell no. Klinger stinks BIG time. If the Hawks acquired Klinger....they'd waive him and send him to Rockford because it looks like they need some right side help. Hawks need veteran defensive Dmen...Murph in order to help allow the rookies time to develop.

Why are the hawks adding a 2nd in this? Murphy for niemela is something I could be ok with but Robertson doesn't pay for the hawks having to take Klingberg

Salary swaps like this don't typically tend to require extra payment. It's one year of Klingberg at a time when the Hawks aren't trying to compete. If they identify a deal/return that they like for Murphy, they aren't gonna let it fall through over needing to take back some cap.

Having said that though, even though I'm kind of lukewarm on Murphy, I do think the Hawks could do better than this.

I'm not so sure on Topi. Nothing against him at all. I wish him the best of luck. I need to see him play a few NHL games before I'm taking an offensive Dman. We've got KK and Jones for that. We need 2-way Dmen and if they can't be 2-way...then defensive Dmen. I just need to make sure he can play better D than Klinger and Timmy. IDK if you've watched a lot of Leafs games this year, but they're POUNDED on that right side because neither Klinger or Timmy aren't strong enough to gain the puck once it's in their Dzone.

Leafs throw in Keefe.