Manson is probably not going back

Based on..? His wife is from here, and he was a favorite among fans, players, and management. Not to mention it’s already been rumored that Verbeek wants to try to bring him back. Honestly if that’s your only criticism I’m pleased

Why are the leafs paying that much for a guy who's posted bad backup numbers for 3 years while making over 6 mill?

I think you need to add 1M to the Manson deal, but with our cap that wouldn't change anything. So whatever on that.

Robertson is so over hyped by Toronto. If he's on our 3rd line I'll be very disappointed. I'd rather find a way to take Robertson and either Steel or Milano out of the trade.

4th line should be Jones - Carrick - Kassian. Waive Grant and send him to San Diego. Honestly I think the Ducks could do a lot better than Carrick too though. Chris Tierney is a UFA I like there.

Otherwise looks good to me.

Well I dont have a stake in the Leafs trade so I didn't want to comment on it. And even though I think Lucic may cost a bit less to move due to his actual money owed and the role he plays a 2nd isn't unrealistic by any means.

Personally I think Colorado will try very hard to keep Manson as they probably end up moving Girard, and Josh paired quite well with Byram. When players hit Unrestricted Free Agency for the first time in their prime they tend to try and go somewhere where they think they can win. I don't see Anaheim being a contender for a few years

I'd probably massage the Maple Leafs trade to not include Milano. Ultimately though I don't think Toronto ends up wanting to trade for Gibson, let alone include Sandin.

I’m kinda not that concerned with the 4th line. Ducks aren’t competing right now, it’s not really a line I’d be tinkering with too much. Definitely wouldn’t waive grant though. He’s a solid bottom 6 guy you could at least trade for a mid-late pick. I don’t love him either, but might as well get value.

Would love to hear why Robertson is overhyped. I haven’t watched him at all but his AHL stats are super promising. I know he’s had some injuries he’s had to overcome and hasn’t clicked at the NHL level yet, but he’s only 20 years old.

Milano is our overhyped guy imo. He seems to only put up good points with Z, and lacks consistency. I just don’t see him as a long-term piece for ANA. He’s a 3rd liner who needs a 1st line quality center to produce

I just think the 4th line is super easy to improve so why not do it. You already traded for Kassian... might as well play him since he's better than both Grant and Carrick.

Robertson is a 20-year old kid that's never played more than 28 games for any team in any professional league. His career high games played in Junior was 62. I think he's a minimum of a full season in the AHL away from cracking an NHL lineup. Maybe two full seasons. He's also small. Leafs fans act like he's going to step right onto the 2nd line of what ever team they send him to and that he'll put up 50 points. That just isn't going to happen.

If you feel like Robertson has a high ceiling and are willing to play him in the AHL trading for him is fine. I'm not saying he'll never pan out. But thinking he's the answer to an NHL roster spot is wanting too much. Especially a 3rd line spot where it's expected that he'll need to be good defensively. The Ducks aren't deep enough to have 3 scoring lines.

I think a really interesting gamble with Milano is only give him a cheap 1 year contract. He'll be a UFA at the end of it so does he put up a massive season in the most important contract year of his life or does he fizzle under that pressure.

I'd take one great year from Milano and then let the prospects fight over the open spot when he's gone. Maybe you flip him at the TDL or maybe you don't.

I guess what I meant is I didn’t really put a ton of thought to who I put where on the fourth line. I wasn’t tinkering w it.

I’m confused on Robertson. The dude has like 65 career pro games between AHL and NHL under his belt. He’s scoring at a .9p/g pace in AHL, which is pretty solid. And he played 3 seasons in the O in over 160 junior games. Our best wing prospect is 20 year old Perreault with .66p/g in just over 80 AHL games. I don’t think it’s crazy to expect Robertson to make the third line out of camp. Maybe he’ll need another year in the A like Perreault, but he’s farther along stats wise at least. I agree his size isn’t exciting. But he isn’t Yamamoto small or anything

I’ll be honest I don’t see any reason at all to do that. He’s not going to cost much and had decent stats this season. Don’t sign him to a deal where you just lose the asset after the year for nothing or just as a rental. Either trade him now when a team who believes in him can give him a team favorable contract that they can control, or sign him to some term now and trade him in a year if it isn’t working out, but again giving the other team control of him for longer so the return is decent

Milano is going to get 3M if the term is 3 years. Dickinson got 2.65 last summer and Roslovic 4 this. Sonny easily splits the difference between those two players on a contract that eats two years of his free agency.

That's a number that I'm not very comfortable with given he has a season high of 34 points in his career spanning seven years and lost an entire one of those years to a concussion. Overhyped was your word but one I agree with. I hope Sonny proves me wrong, signs a contract here in Anaheim and gives us 60 points. The Ducks are a better team if that happens.

Agreed but overhyped means there’s some value still. I just don’t see any reason to take an asset that has some value and turn it into nothing in a year