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very poor deal for NSH with TOR.
I like Kerfoot, and hes a quality 3rd liner, but just that, hes a quality 3rd liner at 3.5mil and just average or below average at 2nd line.
I like Dermott, but hes a 3rd pairing guy, who's neither a puck rusher nor crease clearer. Hes a solid 3rd pairing youngster, but has shown nothing to believe he'd be anything more than a 3rd pairing guy.
Liljegren is a nice prospect, but probably not a top 20 prospect on defense and maybe not even top 50. The leafs preferred Lehtonen and Dermott to him, and hes halfway thru his 2nd pro year without much of a cup of coffee in Toronto, (not the strongest of defenses the last couple of years) its debateable if he still is a top 100 defensive prospect at the end of 2020-21 season.
The 1st rounder will be low.
The two guys being moved are not UFA rentals, a top line winger and top 4 defenseman, nothing you're receiving back replaces those two positions.