No team will touch him with a top 11 lottery pick .
The true contenders would rather be getting someone to help their drive now.
So now that leave what 1st pick you may be able to get or what pick would you accept.
This isn't at the trade deadline. Remember, the context here is that Montreal supposedly expects to threaten NYR with an offer sheet in order to get Sather to green light a Laf for garbage trade. Thus, the contenders (of whom there are always more at the draft than there are at the trade deadline), would see trading their 1st rounder (2+ years away) for Laf (21 year old player with solid post-season experience) as someone who would help their drive now.
And again, I would LOVE to be a fly on the wall for this supposed threat to Sather. He's vindictive and so is Dolan (the main two people who would need to sign off on moving Laf). They would take less to move him somewhere else just to spite Montreal if they tried that nonsense.