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You said "The rest of the assets in this trade were included for a few reasons, partly to account for Bonino being thrown in, and partly just to put Toronto over the top of any other any other teams wanting Meier."
I don't think the Leafs will try to outbid anyone. If they make a Meier offer it will likely be a lowball or something they think is fair. If they did though I think this would do it, and the only team that would probably bother to outbid them is probably NJ, but they might want to practice patience considering the Leafs probably won't resign him and there are also other guys available.
I wonder though if the Leafs would rather get a defender as a throw in (if SJ has a physical one that is cheap) over Bonino or one from a different team.