You can take out Sammy G, LoC, the two first and the second, COL still declines. Why you may ask? Because there is simply not any realistic way for the Avs to take on Nylanders 11.5M extension. You can have RyJo though (if you want him as 3C), you don’t even need to pay for him.

Leafs pass on that Walker extension and Girard trade. Is Kyle Dubas building this team?

Gio won't be playing with the leafs next season but will be part of the team staff somewhere. You sign Benoit but he isn't in the lineup. He is better than Stanley, Timmins and Gio. This team might be the softest the leafs have had in a decade.

Maybe he should be. Tre hasn't done anything good for this team so far. You say the team needs grit while you're okay with that absurd extension he just gave Nylander?

Yeah that’s not even a realistic trade if COL were in need, able and wanted to trade for Nylander.

Tre has done more for this team than calculator boy Dubas has done in his 5 years as GM, glad that guy is gone and far away from the Leafs. I haven't seen a softer GM in this league than that guy, embarrassing lol

I will ask, how is Dubas' new enforcer in 5'7 140 pounds Matthew Phillips?

Not worried about the Nylander extension, we're going to let Marner walk. Not signing that soft and entitled player to an extension

Avs decline. The salary cap exists.