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Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 18, 2022 at 11:56 a.m.
Thread: Different Look Leafs 2023
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>swinny</b></div><div>So you want to upgrade the wing on the 2nd unit is your take?

If you were looking at Kerfoot, I almost see that as a lateral move on Foligno on the second line.

Curious at to your thought process here.... as I respect your opinion all things Wild.</div></div>

Well, I wouldn't say we necessarily <em>want</em> for an upgrade on the wing, and Kerfoot certainly would not be replacing Foligno on the GREEF line given how great that line was last year and the chemistry those three players have. But we are currently 1 forward short of having a complete roster and I'd much rather have someone like Kerfoot playing with Boldy and Rossi than someone like Gaudreau. Here's our current roster projection at forward:

Kaprizov - Hartman - Zuccarello
Greenway - Eriksson Ek - Foligno
Boldy - Rossi - Gaudreau
Duhaime - Jost - Dewar
(no 13th forward)

If we acquired Kerfoot, we could move Boldy to RW and play Gaudreau on that 4th line (where he belongs IMO) and get a HUGE scoring upgrade for Rossi and Boldy. Even though he had a career year, Guadreau is an offensive black hole. He fumbled so many opportunities that Boldy and Fiala gifted him last season.

To be clear, I don't see us going out and targeting Kerfoot in a trade, but I'd be pretty happy if he were a throw-in to a larger deal like this for Dumba. I'm in the process of making a post about a Dumba trade to the Leafs since our beat writer dropped a bit of a bomb in one of his podcasts that Dubas offered Nylander for Dumba when Nylander was going through his contract negotiations and Fenton said no (Dubas dodged a bullet there), but for the life of me I cannot remember which podcast he said this in and what time he said it. Once I find it, I'll post a thread (not for Nylander, there's no chance the Leafs do that) with a link and timestamp. But either way, the Leafs have been interested in Dumba in the past and our GM is quietly shopping him right now according to our beat writer.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 12, 2022 at 2:56 p.m.