Edited Oct. 28, 2018 at 4:33 a.m.
Quoting: palhal
Leafs just can't trade away a valuable centre who play lots of minutes. Who takes his place? Give Gauthier or Lindholm more ice team? What happens if Matthews or Tavares get injured?
It's almost like saying if a team has four good dmen and two average dmen. You don't trade away one of your top four cause now our # 7 has to play every game.
Eventually they will had to. Resigning him at 32y for 6M+ as 3C wont make sense, letting him walk away will make even less. I really hope current GM team wont do same mistake as it was done last season, where TML should objectivelly throw cards on the table and tell themselves current 2017/2018 team isnt cup-contenders yet, ditch a season on behalf of one more year of rebuilding, trade JVR, Bozak and Komarov for future picks at TDL ( check what Tatar brought to DET, its actually an offer sheet value, tho noone could imagine VGK will make those picks to be late ones ) cause Tavares on the way coming to town yet ( for those claiming how would they know that, phone calls arent made on the evening of 30th June, this one was chained long before #Burke ) and signing "Big 3" should be resolved first so they see with what are they left.
I know you ppl will eat me alive again, but lets just imagine this could happened ( again ...IMAGINARY ):
2017/2018 TDL would bring you : prospect , 2nd & 3rd PHI ( JVR), 3rd STL ( Bozak as Brassard ) and 4th NYI ( Komarov)
and now the shocker :
2018/2019 TDL
Pesce <----> Kadri, 1st & 3rd ( both contracts are team friendly, right )
Manson <-----> Gardiner ( three way trade )
made a simulation for upper two here :
https://www.capfriendly.com/forums/thread/174838
Dont get me wrong....i like Kadri very much, hes a great 2way C and everything but still. Who would replace him in 3C ? I think Marleau could do his job for 10 minutes per night in that role easily. So at the start of 2018/2019 playoffs and beyond the team would look like
Hyman - Tavares - Marner
Kapanen - Matthews - Nylander
Johnsson - Marleau - Brown
Lindholm - Ennis - Moore ( i think hes RW at Marlies currentlly )
Rielly - Manson
Dermott - Pesce
xxxxx- Zaitsev................Borgmann, Rosen, Marincin, Ozhiganov, Holl in rotation ( Sandin and Liljegren incoming )