gross overpay

NSH declines.

Some interesting expansion draft ramifications here, starting with the fact that you'd have to re-sign one of your four bottom-6 UFA forwards to a new contract.

They'd be crazy to. This is a bad deal for Toronto.

Problem with this is you are getting a forward and dman with term and can't protect both for expansion draft making this an expensive trade for leafs

Overpay then put him on the bottom D pairing.... just shows you that whatever we add.. they will play on the bottom pairing, shows that we have better D depth...

Expensive in more ways than one. Leafs give up young players and picks and then later for the expansion draft have to choose between the two players they trade for in this scenario.

And not having picks nor the young players to put in place of losing other players to expansion draft/trade.

I guess expensive is understatement.

Exactly.....if it was not for the expansion draft it might not be as bad.....but to then lose Ekholm cause i assume ya keep Forsberg

you seriously over rate TOR.

Both those guys bring back bare minimum a 1st and A+ prospect.
You have not hit that mark.

You seriously overrate the Preds players.