Play Matthews, Tavares and McDavid separately and use Kerfoot as LW for JT:

Johnsson-McDavid-Kapanen
Robertson-Matthews-Nylander
Kerfoot-Tavares-Mikheyev
Moore-Brooks-Korshkov
Marchment

tavares on third line is a complete waste of talent

They should reunite the marchment-brooks-moore line. More should be higher but that line dominated the ahl. I read somewhere that they had something like a 62CF%

Not if they just role 3 lines and play them 20 minutes each. Imagine one of McDavid, matthews or tavares playing against other teams 3rd pair defenseman. They could also mix up the lines mid game and play two of them on the same line

tired: using a 22-man roster to stay below cap

wired: rostering 9 forwards to stay below cap

Fired: playing your 4th line 15 minutes a game

Pyjama Boy pt 2

If McDavid demanded a trade I'm sure EDM would demand Matthews as part of it

Im sure if McDavid demanded a trade, TOR would laugh off that offer. Its gonna be max Marner if he asks to be traded because Oilers dont really have any significant leverage..

They could trade him to another team

Mcdavid isn't the type of leader and person to request a trade, especially to one team specifically. The only way I see him going to TO is IF he leaves in free agency... which still is a good 7 years down the road

If McDavid demanded a trade and would only agree to going to TO, the return would be so much lower than McDavid should cost. I'd bet at that time, Edmonton would ask for Matthews + and possibly would have to settle for just Matthews. Getting a franchise centre back would be paramount for them. And for all the non Leaf fans that are going to go nuts and call me a homer, understand that I hope it never comes to this scenario because its going to kill that fanbase. Having the best player in the league and only one place to negotiate, would result in such an unfair trade. Its also why I don't believe McDavid is tradeable. Edmonton would never get a fair value for him. Edmonton imagines trading McDavid to TO would get them Matthews, Rielly and picks and that is a bad trade for TO to make. Sure McDavid is better than Matthews but he's not better than Matthews and Rielly and adding picks makes it even worse. So a trade would only happen if McDavid wanted out and if he wants out, and limits his potential destinations, that puts Edmonton over a barrel.

NO CHANCE, not even if the leaves ate $5 mill of Marners atrocity..-~