Conor Timmins and Alex Steeves aren't big swings IMO.

why in the world would the leafs add to get a much worse goalie? Blackwood stinks and has stunk for years and he isnt even cheap.

Yeah flames decline and leafs decline sharks not worth highly doubt they do a goalie move this season

Your title is inaccurate....."adding to D". Trading Timmins for Hanifan doesn't add.....it's the same number. Gee you even trading away another in Niemela. Gee, going to next season, Leafs are down two RHD, and not one to replace them as Hanifan is a UFA.

More like caught trying to steal 2nd.

Probably cause whos(Hu) on first.

The only big swing here is the pendulum swinging back and forth on the value disparity between these two trades.

The Calgary trade is not good for the Flames. Steeves & Timmins are 24 & 25 (well , Steeves will be 24 on Sunday) and don't look like anything more than bottom-6/third pair type of guys at this point. So it's basically a late 1st and two bodies for Hanifin - I think the Flames do better than this if they put him on the market.

Then the Sharks trade is a ton of whiplash - Samsonov has had a rough start to the year but even with that he's still put up a .905 SV% & 2.76 GAA in 96 games going back to the beginning of the 2021-22 season. In that same timeframe, Blackwood has played 65 games with an .894 SV% and 3.42 GAA. With that kind of production, I don't think the extra year is really worth that much juice - I could -MAYBE- see a world where the Leafs throw in a 3rd rounder to offset the $1.2M in savings a Samsonov/Blackwood swap would give them, but to throw in one of your top D prospects in Niemela as well is just overkill.

The rest of us dont see the marlies as big swing even though leaf fans will tell us that roster is full of future HOF players

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