LongtimeLeafsufferer
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This is so bad. OEL has just a year left on contract, as does Gardiner. Leafs aren't giving up their best prospect Liljegren and you want the Leafs to trade Kapanen and a first too. No other team would give up nearly so much.
I really don't know how this helps the Leaf defence as you say. Reilly's at LHD, so is Dermot, and probably Borgman, so while OEL, hardly a position great urgency.
In 2019/20 or a year later when the Leafs might be serious contender, OEL is gone via UFA, as would be Liljegren, Kapanen and the first pick.