Yep - Trading Nylander

swap the second round pick to the other side....anddddd carolina still says hell no.

lol.... so I see pesce is still Bobby Orr...

Finally. We agree on something.

and nylander is gretzky? Lets look at bother players.
In one corner, we have Nylander. He's a good 22 year old winger, but showed zero offensive progression from year 2 to year 3. He looks to be a 20 goal scorer who will get you 60 points, and that's pretty good. A little less than a third of his points over his career have come on the powerplay, and unfortunately, he won't be on a PP with Matthews in Carolina. He has massive contract issues, as it sounds like he wants big time dollars, big time term, and has no fear of holding out.
and in the other corner, you've got a number 2 d man. He's really good, he's young, and he has an amazing contract for 6 years.

If Pesce and Nylander were both RFA's, this trade would make a ton of sense. However Pesce has a great contract, and it doesn't seem like Nylander is willing to take anything but top dollar, or even more, for a 60 point 22 year old RFA.

This trade makes a ton of sense for Toronto, and zero sense for the Hurricanes.

The thing is Pesce is on their 3rd pair right now so with Hamilton, and Faulk on the roster he's just a solid dman with potential to be a #2 dman. Nylander though your correct needs a reality check in terms of his value to any team in the NHL he has proven to be a top line playmaker that yes probably is only a 60-70 pt but he hasn't fully developed and could be a 80-90 player. But thats the point this is 2 potential quality players. But main problem the leafs are having with Nylander and all leaf fans have caused this is we made nylander out to be a patrick kane type winger when he's more a Sam Reinhart and due to this his camp think he's worth more. But the canes do need a player like nylander thats why they called about his availablity and may have made some type of offer. But if they want him Pesce is probably the dman that will need to come to TOR in the trade.