21 Feb 2023 14:19:21
The Trade:

Colton Parayko - 6.5m

To Toronto Maple Leafs

For:
2024 1st rnd
2025 3rd rnd
Justin Holl - 2M
Topi Niemlia
Kyle Clifford-.762K

The reasoning:

St. Louis is soon to be on a rebuild mission. They have won their recent Stanley Cup and give Colton the chance once again to be on a playoff bound talented team.

He is familar playing alongside with Morgan Rielly.

They performed well together at the Worlds, and to be honest,..He would totally be one of the best top pairing partners Morgan could ever ask for (not that he did, but who knows lol) to play with.

Colton would give the Maple Leafs a solid, solid, depthy defence core.

St Louis will have two of our top future draft picks back to back (2024 1st and 2nd) giving them leverage to choose whatever positions they need to fill out their respective future come that time,...*plus, they have the rights to a RD future prospect (TOPI)

Maple Leafs current cap space is just over 4.2M - add Holl and Cliffords cap hit and the trade balances out even for Coltons cap hit. ( No retaining)

pssst,..You really think I'm done? (even though that 1 trade could slam the Leafs over the top)

Trade #2

Arizona trades

Crouse - 4.3M
Vegmelka (RETAINED %50)= 1.36M
Bjugstad -.9K

to the Maple Leafs for:

2024 1st round
2025 3rd round
Matthew Knies
Woll/Kalgren (yotes choice)
Kerfoot 3.5
Engval -2.25

Leafs Playoff bound line up

Bunting - Matthews - Nylander
Tavares - O'Rielly - Marner
Crouse - Accarri - Jarnkrock
Bjugstad -Kampf - Zar

Rielly - Parayko
Sandin - Brodie
Gio - Lili
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Timmins- Benn

Samsonov
Vegmelka
Murray/ kallgren or Woll (depends on yotes choice)

Thanks for undivided attention my fellow haockey fans!!

1.) 21 Feb 2023
21 Feb 2023 14:34:13
Can’t use the same picks in both trades. Plus, I don’t think Toronto will have enough cap space to pull it off.

2.) 21 Feb 2023
21 Feb 2023 14:54:29
- the first trade puts leafs over the cap, as would the second.

- the leafs have 72.6M committed to 12 players next year, leaving slightly less than 11M to sign 11 players.

- it doesn't seem logical for leaf trade proposals for assets with term & big salaries.

- with 10 UFAs (including Bunting) and a handful of RFA's it would seem obvious that some measure of realism is going to be required to actually plan beyond the gaps of the current lineup.

- when it comes to managing their cap, and conducting an efficient rebuild, NYR are at the head of the pack in my humble estimation. Some others do it well, but the Rangers seem to do it best.

3.) 21 Feb 2023
21 Feb 2023 15:00:08
Um, I think your attention may be divided.

Among other issues, you’ve traded Leafs 2024 1st and 2025 3rd twice.
Your resulting lineup shows both Parayko and Crouse.

Pinball, say hello to Thatguy.

4.) 21 Feb 2023
21 Feb 2023 15:36:35
haha fair enough it should have been the 2025 1st to Arizona.

As far as cap goes to sign other players imo, . this is where I forfeit Nylander and trade him and his cap hit allowing Colton to be the replacement for a longer term and friendlier cap hit than Nylander would seek.

5.) 21 Feb 2023
21 Feb 2023 16:11:52
No comment on value or the cap but Paryanko is the 1 dman I’d love the leafs to add. The leafs definitely don’t need any depth dman like a Edmonston, Charot and McNabb but a true top 4 guy who can play on the top pairing like a Pesce, Lindell, Lindholm or Paryanko would be a great add.

But the premise of that seems infeasible due to the leafs cap constraints.

6.) 21 Feb 2023
21 Feb 2023 16:15:30
@Chickenfoot- the leafs are expected to fill a good portion of those holes internally. ( Knies, Robertson, etc those guys will be full time NHLers for better or worse ) hopefully O’Reilly pulls a Spezza/ Thortan/ Girodano and takes a league minimum contract to stay. ( wishful thinking ) .

7.) 21 Feb 2023
21 Feb 2023 21:54:56
- VB: even league minimum adds up fast?.