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This trade means that TO is effectively paying a 20 point middle pair defensive defenceman over 5 million a year. Larsson is not all that much better than Zaitsev and you are asking the Leafs to take on his salary, pay Zaitsev a 1 million a year and it'll also cost Brown and Johnsson to do that.
There is no way you can spin this to make it look like anything other than a complete an utter steal for the Oilers. They get 2 players who will play in their top 6 and a right handed defenceman who isn't much worse than the guy they traded and on top of all of that, they save another million off of Zaitsev's contract.
Seriously just stop it dude, this is just terrible.