LongtimeLeafsufferer
Joined: Jul. 2015
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Phanuef has played well this season. But you are correct, when and it might be shortly that his play will decline. Publicly the Leafs are saying that don't intend to trade him. (what else can they say?). Given the right deal he would be traded. Right deal meaning money freedom.
After this season, if the Leafs were to buy one Phanuef it would cost about 2.5m for 10 years. So I would think that a reasonable trade would be for the Leafs would retain no more in salary (or crappy contracts in return)
than 2.5m for 5 years.
Phanuef and Kessell cute together? That's a first.