Having so much turnover on the blueline might not be a great idea...

Yep

Middleton is good without the puck with it he has issues as he cant carry or make clean passes. Braun same problem

Both would be nice but would need puck carrying partners. And also ironically enough so does Mr. Muzzin

I mean would you rather have well known screw ups in the playoffs that won't get any better as long as they're still on their current team or trade them to teams where they could grow a bit more and get trusted toughness and solid D for playoff style hockey in return? with the panthers and lighting bolstering their offence and the Bruins tailing the leafs in the standings adding leafs killer Lindholm to their blue line, Dubas should be kinda desperate for something like this right now, cuz the lineup as is right now is absolutely not getting past this years round one either

well they could always experiment with either one of Rielly Brodie or Lyubushkin I suppose, they're still better options than Holl or Dermott in my eyes with playoff hockey in mind

Dermott is already on the move. Holl on the third pair or as depth 0 issue. He is playing to big of a role rn. But for the most part he has been fine.

Stop the nonsense about NMC Muzzin moving in the offseason on clear cap. He's staying.
Arizona has absolutely no motivation to take Mrzarek.
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This d core really isn’t any better. Holl is better than Braun and Middelton isn’t better than Holl. Lyubushkin is better than Braun and *maybe* Middelton, tho I think Middelton likely has more value due to being more accustomed to top 4 minutes. Regardless, it’s much better to just stay with Holl and Lyubushkin than get worse and give up assets in the process

Sharks are not taking in contacts at the deadline. Period.

maybe he could just be depth right now but I just can't picture him as a Leaf anymore honestly, whether its at the deadline or the offseason, too big of a role and just not that good in terms of the leafs playing style

1. even without these moves there's no room in the cap for him when you factor in Rielly's extension, and all of Campbell's, Sandin's, Liljegren's and Kase's eventual extensions, with those being a bigger need and Duszak popping off vying for a shot in the NHL right now, factoring in all of Muzzin's injuries too, his cap is not worth it nor smart for the Leafs to hang on to, at least not entirely (retention in a trade) and 2. they literally have like no ok goalie in their system, they need the depth down there, wouldn't count them out on a possible destination for a slightly retained Mrazek and them sending down Hutch to Tucson to help out the younger guys in their net

In the first intermission they were saying the leafs are 5th at the start of the game in the league. Problem is panthers and bolts are above them and the bruins are right on their butt. All three teams just made major upgrades and l don't think the leafs can get out of the division with this team no matter who they add. lmo they should trade Nylander and Kerfoot in the off season for draft picks. Then sign some playoff type UFA'S and let Engvall, Kase, Spezza walk. Trade Simmonds for whatever and revamp the forward core. The leafs right now have the softest role players in the league by a mile.

the league standings like that are so close that the leafs could fall to like 9th or 10th in an instant so I don't care about that, the Leafs absolutely can get past the 1st round IF they make the necessary sacrifices on D. aaahhh yes ofcourse, the "trade Nylander" argument, coming from a Marner fan no doubt LMAO. what part of Willy's performance and PLAYOFF performance has shown that he should be the very first player shipped out in the off-season??? every playoff its Matthews and Marner who haven't shown up (JT gets a pass for last year for obvious reasons). Nylander lives up to his contract and shows up where he needs to, the $11M players have yet to prove that they're playoff performers, pending how this years round one goes, Marner is likely the first to go, and not for just draft picks, it'd likely be a three way trade with two really garbage teams that have 2 developed prospects up to Mitch's regular season calibre, all the first round picks they can get and enough cap space to take Mitch on without any retention. Kerfoot has also been proven to step up, he lives up to his contract and maybe more so considering he fills in the 2nd line LW with JT on a regular. if the Leafs would've gotten rid of him it was gonna be last summer to Seattle instead of McCann. Kase is a great penalty killer, someone they need, I say they get an extension done this summer especially since he's restricted. Engvall I can see getting traded sure, Mikheyev is the better guy with Kampf and Kase and there's Robertson and others in the system that can fill that 4th line slot. Spezza probably has another year left in the tank but if Dubas and Keefe think Seney or Steves could fill the 4th line C better then he retires. Simmonds has a lot left in his tank too being younger than Spez, and he brings good energy and physicality to this group unlike anything I've seen from a leaf forward in a while, he's definitely a keeper. Bunting Matthews and Mikheyev I've noticed are pretty tough, Matthews especially this year, and that's good, but they still need to be careful cuz of the absolute joke that is NHLDPS, I don't blame them for being restrictive on that when a guy like Parros is in charge of that place