Trading a Defenseman to Toronto

Created by: KrakenTheCode

Team: 2023-24 Seattle Kraken

Initial Creation Date: Dec. 23, 2023

Published: Dec. 23, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Accurate/Prorated

LTIR Enabled: Yes

Season Days: 192

Days Remaining: 117

Season Remaining: 61%

Projected Cap Hit Prior To Days Remaining

: $84,404,962

Legend

Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

Seattle’s not punting on this season just yet, their acquisition of Tomas Tatar is evidence of that. Even if they did, it would be a short term step back with the goal of reloading for next year. This means popular ACGM trade targets like Larsson and Borgen, among others, would not be on the block, as they’d play critical roles with the Kraken in any bounce back.

In my mind the most likely Kraken blue liner to be traded is Schultz. Ryker Evans has looked really good since his NHL call up and appears to be a more natural fit on the power play, so trading Schultz would open up more playing time for him. Schultz, meanwhile, would be a useful rental to several teams as a RHD who can produce offense and is mostly okay in his own end. I’ve sent him to Toronto here because Leaf fans have been the most persistent in churning out mock trades for Seattle’s other, much less available defensemen. The reality is if the Leafs complete a trade for one of the Kraken’s RHD this season, odds are it’s going to be for Schultz, not Larsson or Borgen. Schultz isn’t a perfect fit for them but his ability to step up his play come playoff time might be quite appealing.

As always, helpful feedback is welcome! Go Kraken and a Merry Christmas to all those who celebrate!

Trades

SEA

2024 3rd round pick (NYI)
2025 5th round pick (CHI)

TOR

Schultz, Justin ($1,500,000 retained)

Retained Salary Transactions

Justin Schultz: $1,500,000 (50%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2024
2025
2026

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$83,500,000	$76,538,243	$129,910	$1,907,500	$6,961,757

Prorated Cap Hit

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Tatar, Tomas $1,500,000$914,063 LW, RW UFA - 1	Beniers, Matthew $897,500$546,914 ($1,850,000$2M) C RFA - 1	Eberle, Jordan $5,500,000$3,351,563 RW M-NTC UFA - 1
McCann, Jared $5,000,000$3,046,875 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 4	Wennberg, Alexander $2,250,000$1,371,094 C M-NTC UFA - 1	Tanev, Brandon $3,500,000$2,132,813 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 2
Tolvanen, Eeli $1,450,000$883,594 LW, RW RFA - 1	Gourde, Yanni $5,166,666$3,148,437 C, LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 2	Bjorkstrand, Oliver $5,400,000$3,290,625 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 3
Kartye, Tye $859,167$523,555 ($57,500$58K) LW, C RFA - 2	Shore, Devin $775,000$472,266 LW, C, RW UFA - 1	Yamamoto, Kailer $1,500,000$914,063 RW RFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Dunn, Vince $7,350,000$4,478,906 LD/RD UFA - 4	Larsson, Adam $4,000,000$2,437,500 RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Daccord, Joey $1,200,000$731,250 G UFA - 2
Oleksiak, Jamie $4,600,000$2,803,125 LD/RD NTC UFA - 3	Borgen, William $2,700,000$1,645,313 RD UFA - 2	Driedger, Chris $3,500,000$2,132,813 G M-NTC UFA - 1
Evans, Ryker $897,500$546,914 LD RFA - 2	Dumoulin, Brian $3,150,000$1,919,531 LD M-NTC UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Megna, Jaycob $762,500$464,648 LD UFA - 1	Grubauer, Philipp $5,900,000$3,595,313 G NTC UFA - 4	Schwartz, Jaden $5,500,000$3,351,563 LW NMC UFA - 3
Lind, Kole $775,000$472,266 RW UFA - 1	Burakovsky, André $5,500,000$3,351,563 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 4
	Bellemare, Pierre-Édouard $775,000$472,266 C, LW UFA - 1

Top Comments

Dec. 23, 2023 at 1:34 p.m.

KingExLeafs

Joined: Jul. 2021

Posts: 4,164

Likes: 629

He's not the type of defenceman the Leafs are looking for or need. Borgen or Larsson would be better fits.

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Dec. 23, 2023 at 1:34 p.m.

Vancity2196

Joined: Mar. 2022

Posts: 3,789

Likes: 1,208

If Seattle doesn’t make it to the playoffs then Leafs will accept this trade.

Dec. 23, 2023 at 1:44 p.m.

aadoyle

Hakuna Matata

Joined: Feb. 2020

Posts: 34,384

Likes: 21,076

Schultz really isnt the Dman Toronto is eyeing

Adam Larsson is basically the only guy of interest.

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Dec. 23, 2023 at 1:45 p.m.

LeafsFanForSomeReason

Joined: Jan. 2020

Posts: 6,815

Likes: 5,295

I don't know that that's an accurate assessment. I think they know it was house money to make the playoffs in year two and while sure it would be nice to do it again and they haven't punted yet, their sights should be (and likely are) set on the long term. They'd listen on guys like that.

Dec. 23, 2023 at 1:54 p.m.

Ryminister_92

Joined: May 2023

Posts: 2,010

Likes: 794

Despite all these users saying that Schultz isn’t “the type” of player that Toronto is looking for, he is actually - just not the priority. They would like a right handed shot to replace Klingberg on the PP and Schultz would do that.

However they wouldn’t be interested in spending a lot to get him and they value their picks a lot right now. The 3rd would be off the table as they’ll likely have to use that to bring in a bigger defensive impact player & the 5th is a high 5th since it’s Chicago’s. If you could change the 3rd to a mid tier prospect and change the 5th to Toronto’s or Vancouver’s then a deal could be had.

Don’t forget that Seattle isn’t trading from a position of strength with Schultz since they have to make room for Ryker and Schultz is a pending UFA so the price or demand won’t be too high

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