@PleaseBanMeForMyOwnGood as per my last comment on another thread - looks like someone found a reason for TO to want Benning. lol

https://www.capfriendly.com/forums/thread/300124

Re: Ceci for Benning, I'm not sure why Toronto would bother if they have to retain $2M. His current cap hit is $4.5 but with your trade they would retain $2M and then pay Benning $1.9, for a total savings of... *drumroll* ... $600k. Is that worth giving up Johnsson for a lot less than he's worth?

Ok how about now. Makes things a little tight cap wise but I heard that we may be able to terminate Mannings contract. If not than we can work around it i'm sure.

I don't think it's enough. Ceci isn't a cap dump, he's playing hard minutes for Toronto and doing ok. You could argue that he's overpaid and maybe the Leafs would send him out in order to spend that cap hit somewhere else, but he isn't a dump / AHL player.

The cant terminate Mannings contract, well they could, but what happens if Nuge or Connor make those remarks, YIkes @CD282 at least the will have rfa rights to Benning and another D for next year at probably a good price. It is actually a pretty good trade for both teams, Leafs get a good D for a change and oilers get a LW

If Leafs will go for it, I'm happy. I just thought they'd value Johnsson more than that.

Sometimes people get to tied up and nit pick, its is a straight hockey trade that benefits both teams

Hard no.