This is a joke, right?

YES, Nylander has tremendous upside and like I said Nylander is staying with the leafs. This is telling type of trade that would make the leafs reconsider trading him. He has Defensive issues right now but he is learning just like Kadri was and he could develop into a more creative Kadri.

I meant the trade.

Because Leaf fans are not the sharpest knives in the drawer.

All preseason we saw JVR/Bozak/Komorov traded all over because their contracts are up soon so better move them! All these players that Leaf fans want to move are more than likely the reason the Leafs are playing so well. Leaf fans subconsciously want to be bottom dwellers forever.

The Islanders were the only team that immediately came to mind for who has players that met the criteria for the trade. Hamonic is not untradable but it would take a quality young player to peak their interest. Snow would have to be stupid to trade Hamonic.

Dangles. Unfortunately this site encourages more "trading" than "team building". And many Leaf fans on this site, seem to think it necessary to trade all upcoming UFAs (even the ones that come up in 2018) at the expense of winning (winning by Leaf standards) for. this year and next.
I really wonder about the depth of knowledge of many fans when it seem Bozak or JVR are trading constantly to contenders. Aren't there other player on other teams who may not make the playoffs available for trades also?
An example a few months ago was the Tanev trades from Vancouver. Seems like 60% of the trades had Tanev coming to the Leafs. Couldn't their been other teams that would have valued Tanev also?

Your last line might be right for some Leaf fans. Seem that some want to trade, trade, trade since the Leafs aren't winning the Cup this year or next and then by magic, all these trades (which. keep the Leafs out of the playoffs will magically in the future make them Cup winners. So from out of the playoffs with Matthews, and friends for another four years and then suddenly five years a Cup winner.
Again, it seems to lack of thought and what it makes to build a team, which will make a winner.

Leafs fans aren't used to having 3 amazing young forwards so some subconscious compulsion to be **** is causing the fans to want to get rid of one of them.

I don't understand why Nylander, he could easily have more impact than Marner in the future. Marner with all his amazing vision etc is very risky in the neutral zone and often gives up 2-on-1s and obviously isn't that good along the boards due to his size. On the other hand Nylander is pretty amazing down low / on the half boards for a very skilled guy. Idk, I love Mitch as well but I think Nylander is very underrated for some reason. I bet if Nylander was playing with Bozak/JVR rather than a shutdown role / some time with Matthews he would be outscoring Marner.

Though I wouldn't trade JVR for just any player. IF the Leafs were to get some quality prospects and a 1st I think it would be considered. Shanahan has stated that they are still in rebuild and that a Kessel type trade without retaining money would be listened to. For example if MTL offered Jullsen, Fucale, De la Rose and depth player with no year remaining and a 1st I think it would be listen to. But no I agree JVR and Bozak will not be traded for the sake of trading.

hockeymad: Bottom of the rounds first aren't that meaningful compared to what CapFriendlyGms think they are. Kessel was traded cause he was an average NHL player making 8m a year. His trade was a long term cap dump. Please don't look at the stats and say he was the Leafs best player. The player he is in Pittsburg is considerably better than what he did as a Leaf.
The Leafs are ahead of schedule in their rebuild, though we'll see by April where it really is. And believe or not, the rebuild includes, pushing for the playoffs, making the playoffs and not endlessly trading for maybes.

I agree but the team the player is in is considerably better as well. Kessel is the same guy, the team is not the same. Take Kessel now and drop him in Colorado or Arizona (plus the media microscope) and its the same smell as it was in T.O.

Sorry Marco no. Kessel might be the same guy (most people including myself like Phil). But he certainly isn't the same player now as he was in Toronto. He never engaged defensively, was on every power play so let's no overwhelmed by the stats. And this media microscope....false. Brian, The Brain, Burke started bringing up this subject when the team was constantly near the bottom. He blamed the media and allowed others on the team to use "the microscope" as a crutch. The media in Toronto is very soft and its players and are rarely criticized. Where Phil really felt pressure, was especially in the last half season as a Leaf and it was through public forums. He was brutal as an NHL hockey player. Well if you're a pro athlete, and people pay to see you play/work or at least spend their time watching you, your play will be judged. But please it wasn't the media. If anything blame the hockey fans who realized Kessel was contributing little to the team. Good for Phil that he got a fresh start and is playing well.
But anyone who think the media (newspaper, TV and radio commentators are harsh to it's hometown players have just been swept up by the public forums or believe what Brian Burke says about hockey life in Toronto.