I mean McDonough and Sergachev were both acquired via trade (I meant top 4 defensemen)

With or without Nylander, the ducks aren’t a playoff team. They can swing for for a big FA next year and even if they miss, the type of offer moving a blue chip prospect for a stud in his prime is still on the table. Not sure why now would be the time to pull it to go from being a bottom 5 team to a bottom 10

Nylander doesn't fit the Hawks rebuild period. Let alone trading away 2 of their top 5 prospects. The Hawks are not in a win now mode, they are building stil.

Just adding Nylander to their core (IMO) will make them a lot better, faster... And I want to see Zegras in the playoffs

Nobodies offering anywhere near these returns for a winger that needs a new deal with a history of holding out to get his way. Resign matthews to a ridiculous deal and trade Nylander for a couple picks. Use that cap space on a defense upgrade

I think the Washington is the only team that accepts and I'm not sure that really even helps Toronto that much. Kuznetsov is definitely a downgrade from Nylander. There is a 6yr age difference and with the retention you're only getting about $1.7M in cap space. Plus those 2nd round picks do nothing to help Toronto to win now.

Drop Faulk of course and drop retention on Krug

Blues would consider that

Not a chance AZ trading cooley - AZ has too many picks as is. They just signed dumba not trading him either before season starts. Willie is on last year, no way AZ has any interest unless signed for some years, then why would they flip him after he signs deal or he doesnt sign and TDL but he is a rental and not going command that much (to offset loss of cooley) and even 50% is tough for most teams. Nothing in this trade makes sense.

Not our best defensemen prospect and our best right wing prospect

If rather pay for someone who I believe will make an instant impact and stay consistently good over someone who will fall off when he doesn’t have Tavares and Matthews to wipe his ass

Nylander won't fall off

Every time Leafs players leave Toronto, they fall off the face of the earth

Yeah... No, Nylander's way more valuable than Krug

Name kadri, Mason marchment, Carter Vergaghe anoyne?

Marchment and Verhaeghe don’t count because they never played a minute with Toronto

Also are you forgetting James Reimer, Jack Campbell, Kasperi Kapanen, Andreas Johnsson?

I'm late to the party, but, LMAO!!!! CHI and AZ laugh in your face. Also, the rest are completely different values from what you are asking from CHI and AZ.

Logan Cooley's worth that much? I know it was a stretch to ask for Korchinski and Nazar... But why not, but Cooley's that valuable

Let’s both cross our fingers they land him in free agency this off-season then!

Doesn't work that way, and not a chance, Chicago would even give up Korchinski alone for Nylander as a rental and unlikely Nazar alone making Korchinski, Nazar and a 2nd nothing shy of offensive of an offer.

Sure, at 10 mill after the Leafs trade him at TDL to some contender for a lot of stuff that helps them win the cup

I know it was prob too much on Chi's side but I was just talking on theory of why I'd think Nylander to CHI

Cooley is definitely worth more. The kid tore up the NCAA as a freshman and will likely go down as the best player out of the 2022 draft. He is also under team control for the next 8 years. He is the future of AZ. But it isn't so much the price as it is their timeline. They aren't giving up their new rookie possible face of the franchise future for a pending UFA who wants a huge raise and doesn't really address any needs for them. They need the affordable and hopefully surplus production in Cooley's ELC years. Late round picks probably don't help your case all that much, either. Rebuilding teams, or teams coming out of rebuilds, generally don't give up their best prospects for aging expensive and/or expiring players.

I’ve gotta echo this. Cooley is maybe a top 5 NHL prospect, but all but certainly top 10. And this is coming from a Ducks fan.

In general, I don’t see ANA, CHI, or ARI as viable trade partners. Rebuilds aren’t going to flip top prospects for Nylander when they’re not on the cusp of competing. Better odds with WAS/STL

Yeah that’s not the point, the point is the blues wouldn’t do the trade as is and it needs to be changed

Maybe... But it would need to be Krug++ if both are involved in a trade