Thinking Blake says no. Lowballing Bert won't get him to sign with the Leafs.

Gavrikov is not the player people think he is. He's not all that good.

Going to need you to think bigger if you think that will get Byfield, and if that's all Gavrikov and ROR wanted they'd be signed already.

Leafs gotta hope that with AZI news today may cause some of the NCAA players to play out there college term in order to free themselves to sign where they want and away from that mess. IE Logan Cooley and former teammate of Knies. Maybe there is a future (wishful thinking) where he signs with the Leafs because of that connection. It would be a steal kind of like Fox going to NYR. (After refusing to sign with Cgy or Car.) Or more recently Vessey signing with NYR instead of Buffalo who drafted him.

Either way getting talented young players is a pipe dream without giving something of value in return. Also Byfield doesn't fill the need Toronto has atm, and neither of the two players going to LA fill their need. They would need a Nylander or someone who could put the puck into the net.


Dudas contract talks might be stalling a few things on resigning players, but you are are ultimately right. All news coming out suggest ROR wants to test the FA market, so makes me believe he thinks he's worth north of 4m/yr.

Hoping the Leafs bring back at least Schenn, and Acciari.

He absolutely is, EW projects he will get 5.5M on a 3 year deal

The Kings don't need more scoring. They had no trouble putting the puck in the net this season. The big problems were on defense and in goal (which is weird to say after 15+ years of watching the Kings struggle to score).

Unless they're shopping Woll (which would be dumb), there's really nothing Toronto has that LA wants. De-age Giordano by 5+ years and the Kings would be very interested.