leafs take it and RUN

just because igor isnt having a great season dosent mean you should trade him. might not be the best comparable but look at austom matthews for example... he went from scoring over 60 goals and winning MVP to only having 40 and having a pretty bad year. the next year hes on pace of north of 70 goals.

i still think igor is a top 5 goalie in the NHL, but hes just lost his way this year. i have no doubt hes going to turn it around



as far as the bertuzzi trade, leafs might go for that one... its definitly more realistic than the igor trade

All just frameworks honestly. The Igor trade, Rangers would probably be asking for a bit more especially if the trade happened today and Igor is on that discounted contract all the way through next year. I think Bertuzzi would be a good fit on NYR and Lindgren would be a good fit on TOR. But I like the Leafs and I'd advise them too against signing him to a long contract

Philly is chasing the playoffs

Konecny is Philly’s next captain and they would never move him to the Rangers. I can tell you with 100% certainty that Jones wouldn’t be part of the return. They’d want a 1st, high end prospect, and roster player

How is Tor gonna pay Igor what he wants?

Konecny is going to cost alot

People are missing one of the most glaring things we’ve faced in a long time and that’s injuries. We have guys playing in spots they shouldn’t. Our top 9 has like 4 guys that shouldn’t and won’t be in it. They’re playing shorthanded, it’s not an excuse it’s reality. They don’t need go super crazy (assuming Chytil comes back).

Cuylle looked GREAT on the first line. Zib should be back this weekend so that’s a line that can start getting some chemistry where they may not need a 1RW. Let it marinate and see what happens

The second line is all we have. They’re on the ice so much they’re too tired to play defense, so that hurts right now too.

Forward minutes tonight were outlandish

Kreider -24:11
Trocheck - 23:16
Panarin - 22:35
Laf - 22:39

That’s not normal and just shows you just how shorthanded they are

Trade for Novak. Send them a first rd pick if they have too. That will give us 3 good lines regardless of Chytil coming back or not. Kakko will play probably on Saturday

Kreider Zib Cuylle
Panarin Trocheck Laf
Vesey Novak Kakko
Goodrow Bonino JBrod

TDL improve the 4th line and get a defenseman. Tbh I’d trade Schneider for a rental D and a forward we can use right now. Calgary, Tanev and Ruzicka for Schneider

Konecny might be the Flyers next captain(think its far more likely that Couts is), but there is still a decent chance he gets moved. But you are absolutely right Jones wouldn't likely be part of the return. We already have far too many bottom pair defenseman on the team and in the system. I would also agree that a 1st and a top prospect would be a start.

I mean Philly prob isnt moving konecny for anything the rangers have

These trades are all just frameworks. Konecny would be great on the Rangers and is probably my preferred choice but you can substitute any high end available RW to get the idea. And, if Kakko shows the same amount of improvement as Lafreniere has this year when he gets back from injury, the Rangers should ride that instead of spending assets on a RW from another team

Not extending Marner is an option. Both Mitch and Igor end after 2024-25. A lot of people are done with the expensive Core Four and it seems like Marner is the odd man out as time goes on (Nylander is now a Leaf for life, Matthews locked in for a while, and JT will take a discount to stay so no reason to run him out of town). Anyways, not extending Marner frees up 10m+ and the cap will go up significantly by then as well. If they manage to lock up Igor for ~8m it's very doable

There's too many possibilities if you can substitute any winger in the league so I can only speculate on the proposal before me. If you want an option on a different winger, then make another ACGM with a different winger. For this, I don't see Philly selling unless they go on a crazy losing streak.

I'm not going to do that because the entire point is that these are frameworks and general ideas, not specific ideas