Quoting: jasondomitrovic
Why not?
Toronto needs this positions filled. Minnesota needs to get younger and rid themselves of those two brutal contracts of Suter and Parise. Risto wants out of Buffalo and the Sabres need players like Horny and ZAR that can score in the net front and actually play defense like ZAR who has some of the best numbers in the league Selke wise. And the Montreal deal gets them a BIG tall center that they don't have and a proven player in Simon who played with Crosby and since he's young he will grow with the young Montreal core going forward.
Marucs Petterson is a LHD 3rd pair D, a thing the Leafs really don't need
Jack Johnson is kind of the same, but he also has a bad contract
McCann is not really an upgrade over the 3rd liners the Leafs already have
Matt Murray had a save percentage of below .900 on a good Pittsburgh team
Why should the Leafs give up the 15th best goal scorer in the NHL as well as Kasperi Kapanen for a lot of things they don't need?
Ryan Suter is actually performing well and has kind of no injury history. I think he can still play on a high level for 3-4 years and his contract expired after 5. So they have 1 or max 2 years of Suter not being worth what he is payed.
For:
Evan Rodrigues: 4th line guy
Riikola kind of a 7th D
Johnson: AHLer
Clear no
Why should the Habs want Bjukstad?
And why should they want Hörnquist. He is old and expensive. Buffalo can get a Hörnquist type player who makes half of what he does.
Overall, you don't give up anything and get quite a lot, how does that work?