trade Simmonds for a conditional seventh, and sign Spezza

Hawks are not taking that cap dump for a late second.

Make it a first and I'll accept

Don't worry about what I'll do. But I will need a first for that cap dump

I feel Mrazek's career may be over. 3 serious groin injuries in one season shows his body is just up to the task anymore. And its never gonna fully heal. I got a feeling Dubas may talk with him and put him on LTIR for the remainder of his deal.

Or hey maybe he recovers and picks up where he left off.

Who knows

But I feel a buyout is the most likely scenario as how can you trust a guy like this. Yes he was getting better but it was so far

Injury --> mixed results --> Injury ---> Not great ---> Gets waived ---> Improves and looked good ---> Injury

Mrazek will not be a cash dump, my bet is Dubas finds a team with a player they're not happy with and the 2 teams swap cash dumps, sort of like Zaitsev for Ceci trade Dubas managed to do.

If his injury is serious enough, this would be a third injury in how many months?

This could mean an LTIR retirement.

Its sad but it is an option

Put his 3.8m on LTIR (Like Bishop) and go sign or trade for someone to backup Campbell in 2022-2023. Mrazek still gets his money and Toronto cap space (so to speak).

As if Mrazek somehow comes back whats the guarantee hes gonna be okay for multiple games. Like when was the last time we heard a goalie suffered 3 groin injuries in a season and is still in the NHL. Like even if we buy him out nobody gonna sign him and even if we include a good sweetener nobody gonna take him as his injury proneness has become an issue.

Feel bad for the guy but I feel his career may be over.

Ah yes. & that’s what everyone on this stupid site said about moving Ritchie’s contract & looked how that turned out..

Mrazek is a serviceable NHL goalie (whether idiots on here wanna admit that or not doesn’t change it). He’s struggled this season - but when you look at his career this is a trend. Good season followed by a bad one then followed by a good one and so on. He’s not a starting goalie but he’s a tandem option. His contract is actually not that bad. $3.8M cap hit with $4.2M in actually cash owed in each of the next 2 seasons. But it’s a contract structure that’s similar to Ritchie’s and can easily be bought out for much cheaper - if bought out this summer it turns to a $1.03M, $833K, $1.43M, $1.43M over the next 4 seasons. & if bought out after next season, it’s only the last 2 on that list that account for the cap. On top of that, Chicago is desperate for a goalie for next season and they’ve already had interest in him at the deadline so the fit is there. Worst case, they add him and take a chance on him while they rebuild, they could easily restore his value and move him for other assets or they keep him for a year and if not liked that much they can buy him out at a very cheap cost.

Bottom line, it’s absolutely not going to cost a 1st round pick to move Mrazek if that’s the path Toronto chooses to go. Just because you don’t like him as a fan, doesn’t mean that a team has to severely overpay to do something. There’s value to him, he played better after the deadline. Take things for what they are instead of just your bias fan opinion.

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Think you hit the nail on the head.

The real concern is the groin. But there was genuine jnterest. Chicago was one, have to think Buffalo is another (like, who WANTS to go to Buffalo right now)

At least a first, what is this… amateur hour?

iron man Mrazek had a 2 game streak going before he got hurt. Dubas is taking calls from multiple team according the leaf fan base.

Chicago couldn’t promise to keep his streak going, so they are probably out of the running.