Would take more to dump Elvis to the Hawks

Maybe throw in some blue suede skates?

Gonna have to up that 3rd to the cbj unprotected first this year and I'm still not sure if chicago would do it

Leafs accept

https://youtu.be/0cgbZqR2AGI?si=roYkK9xddUN-mBsS

You know what, I'm in on that Marner trade.

Rather just buy out Elvis at this point than try to find a dance partner.

Florida declines. Small, fragile Boqvist is the anti-Panther anyway, let alone them throwing away Knight in the process.

I swear to G-d if we trade that much for Marner and leave the blueline untouched I just might abandon hockey altogether.

I mean I know some of y'all are thinking Panarin 2.0 But Better but I just don't see it.

Marner is basically a defenseman, to be fair. If he’d been a bigger kid, he would’ve been.

I dunno what to say. I just don't see it with him. I really don't. Maybe I'm just inexplicably blind to what goes on in that regard or I've been paying entirely too much attention to everyone else on the Leafs but when it comes to him I just don't see that.

to be fair this was more to see how the basic framework of a marner deal would impact the rest of the roster (plus signing stephenson) – doesn't necessarily mean that the blueline would be untouched, although the rest of the to-do list includes getting elvis out and backfilling his spot, which makes things a bit harder.

in reality, meaningfully improving the blueline after a marner trade would require one of the following:
1. an elvis buyout and rolling tarasov/greaves (not ideal)
2. trading one of sillinger/chinakhov for a comparable defenseman (or an affordable vet with term)
3. signing a really cheap UFA veteran defenseman (didn't really see any i liked tbh)