No thank u

Youre way off on the Leafs trade

As I understand it, the Leafs are looking for a defence-first LHD to play in their top 4 and I believe they’re shopping in the $4 million AAV salary range.

I picked Knies as the return for Dillon because he’s a Leafs’ prospect I remembered hearing about, but there’s likely another prospect or draft pick that would be fine if the Leafs are unwilling to move Knies in that deal.

Basically, I don’t think the Jets’ defencemen as a group fit all that well together and my moves are meant to reallocate cap space in order to better optimize the roster.

Dillon is too good imo to be considered strictly a salary dump, but I think he’d probably be a better fit on the Leafs or some other team looking for a reliable middle pair LHD that would be a fixture on their PK because the Jets don’t seem to have a RHD that is ideally suited to pair up with him.

If Heinola was a RHD, I think that might have worked, so that’s why the trade for RHD Schenn as he’s pretty much a RH version of Dillon, just older and cheaper and better suited to a 3rd pair mentorship role with Heinola.

Leafs were rumoured to be looking to trade for Gavrikov from the Blue Jackets. Do you Leafs fans think he’s better than Dillon? My opinion is they’re pretty comparable.

To get Columbus to accept a trade, what do you think they’ll want in return?

Also, iirc, Gavrikov is a pending UFA and Dillon has one more season at $3.9 million. Not sure if that’s a pro or a con from the Leafs’ perspective. I guess it depends on next season’s projected cap situation.

If Dubas trades Knies for Gavrikov, he should be fired. Knies is probably the most ready prospect the Leafs have and a big reason not to trade him would be have him on the roster next season.

If the cap really isn't going higher than the million or so said to be going up by, ELC contracts will be very important to the Leafs and Knies is in that category of players.