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Forum: Armchair-GMYesterday at 12:10 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMThu. at 1:02 a.m.
Thread: Goals against no more now its up to the forwards to score
The Leafs always need more offense in the playoffs, it's either the stars not producing enough or not enough second-scoring. With Bertuzzi and Marner going out and E Lindholm and Cowan coming in, you're not really solving anything upfront. Cowan will produce less than Marner more than likely and Lindholm might produce similar to Bertuzzi. Ullmark is a good goalie, especially in tandem, but he's been horrible in the playoffs, so they better hope Woll can stay healthy. The difference would need to come from the defense: prevent goals and generate some offense. With the additions you made, I think they could be. However, if they are not, expect more of the same.

It would be a mistake to trade Marner in-division, especially to the Bruins.

There's no way CHI trades that far back in the draft, for those pieces. Liljegren is still only 25, but it's not expected that he'll find his offensive touch again, so his upside is basically a top-4 TWD that is mostly defensive. Tavares doesn't do much for them even if he waives. They could get a 1st out of him, but still not worth it. If they don't want to draft at 2nd, they could drop to 7th and get picks that are equivalent in value to the Leafs 24th OV. At 7th, they can probably draft a RD like Parekh who is expected to be a top 4-D but has top-2 upside.

Not sure who you were referring to as the big best defenseman in the draft but I think Treliving would draft Silayev (6'7 LH DFD - top 2 potential) over Levshunov (6'2 RD TWD - top 2 potential), even though Levshunov is what the Leafs need, and more likely to be the better player.

As for your UFA signings they are all pretty good except the Lindholm one, he'll get 7-years and more than likely more money. Domi would also probably get 3.5M at the very least, but probably more like 4M. DeMelo might need a bit more term or more money (4.5Mx3, 5Mx3, 4Mx4, or 4.5Mx4).