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MSzudy
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Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 7, 2022 at 4:01 p.m.
Thread: VAN deal for a run
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>HockeyIsMyPassion61</b></div><div>Kerfoot and Holl are cap dumps, Take far more than Robertson+Niemela+Late 1st round pick to get Bo Horvat out of Vancouver. Basically any 7-8 other teams that have interest in Horvat blow that offer away.</div></div>

Major overpay for Horvat:
1/ he’s a rental
2/ every team interested would offer late 1st rounder, that’s how the league works
3/ Robertson &amp; Niemela are 2 of our top 5 prospects
4/ Kerfoot aded to make $ balance, i’m assuming - he’s far from a cap dump
5/ prefer Holl to Schenn any day so just delete them from package


Leafs would be crazy to offer this for Horvat, who’d be 3C and on 2PP. There’s no precedent for this type of return for a player like Horvat. If a team wants to out bid this, feel free - smh
Forum: Armchair-GMNov. 30, 2022 at 3:57 p.m.
Thread: Deadline deals part 4
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>MSZUDY21</b></div><div>So the Hawks are tanking for Bedard. Domi makes $3,000,000 and Kerf only makes 500,000 more. They can play the same situation and both are UFAs so ultimately the deal is for the prospect and the Hawks can wipe their hands clean in the offseason if they want to and clear $3.5 M off the books. They won't be good for a few years so collecting prospects should work for them. Maybe a different prospect. What would a counter be in your opinion ?</div></div>

Domi is worth a late 2nd or basically Abruzzesse. Adding Kerfoot is doing the Leafs a favor, why would the Hawks take back a useless player knowing the other team needs to move cap out? In other words, Domi is getting traded for that type of value whether to the Leafs or elsewhere, it's not as if the Leafs are the only option, which if they were your rationale makes sense but they aren't. Moving cap out to a team that views the player as useless requires payment to that team, aka cap dump. Leafs will probably need to include a 4th rounder to move Kerfoot to the Hawks, but more importantly, the Leafs should look to a team that would value Kerfoot and get something in return for him even if it it's only a 4th or 5th rounder.
Forum: Armchair-GMNov. 29, 2022 at 4:18 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMNov. 27, 2022 at 4:37 p.m.
Thread: Deadline deals part 3
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>MSZUDY21</b></div><div>Fabbro is younger, has higher upside and is better than Holl.

Laughton is actually a center, good face-off stats and provides more offense then Kerfoot. He has proven he can't play center.

Garland provides a feisty winger, still in his prime and gives you some offense and is a better fit in the top 6 which allows bunting to slide down to 3rd line LW.

I think these deals improve the team for a playoff run this year as well as decent contracts which will still allow flexibility in the coming years especially as the cap goes up.</div></div>

Laughton has 3 more years after this year at $3M........we've got youth coming up (Homberg, Abruzzeze, Steeves) as well as Kampf and Jarnkrok on the roster. We don't need an overpaid guy for faceoffs when Taqvares, Matthews and Kampf are better.
I like Fabbro, but once again, he's not a huge upgrade and is not worth a first and a third
Garland, once again, I like him, but not at just under $5M for the next 3 years (after this one). To me not worth a first.

We need to keep the extra cap $$ coming up to resign Matthews, Marner and Nylander. JT will probably take a pay cut to try and win a cup in Toronto (since he'll have made over $100M by the time the contract ends).

Leafs need to be very careful with their picks and prospects to add pieces that will help with a Stanley Cup run, and I don't think any of these player will.