Confirmed with Link: Leafs acquire Brandon Carlo (15% retention) for Fraser Minten, cond. 2026 1st round pick and a 2025 4th round pick

[Action Jackson]

Our entire D Core is locked up for at LEAST the next 2 years. Very solid. Now add some serious forwards in the off season.

That florida team is going to annihilate the east again, focus on next year.

Why?

Bruins fans say Carlo hasn't looked good, have you heard about Seth Jones? Nobody was sad he was shipped out

Marchand is old and slowing down, he's nasty but just a rental

Tkachuk is gonna be limping into the playoffs

Florida super overrated.

Dallas is the real deal. Best depth i've seen on a team in the past decade

 

[Leaf Lander]

The team is bigger which is good all we need in the summer is a bigger winger or 2 via ufa

 

[rumman]

Exactly, be negative when it's time.
Like I do every year, if you don't have hope, what's the point. To me, this is the best team we've had, particularly with Stolarz, so let's see what they do. It still comes down to this core delivering.

Exactly why I have so very little faith in this team, groundhog day every spring………

 

[Leafsfan74]

Not much is known about the deal. All we know is that Minten and a 1st are involved.

Leafs haven't even announced it yet.

Maybe the league rejected it as coming in too late?

Hmmmm

 

[DarkKnight]

15 percent retained on Carlo! Tre presser.

 

[Lightsol]

You thinking that, says a lot about how you would react.

Yeah, it says a lot about ME that there's a collection of posters around here that declare the season over after every loss and whine about every move the team makes or doesn't make...

 

[SprDaVE]

Maybe the league rejected it as coming in too late?

Hmmmm

No it's a done deal, just takes awhile since a ton of deals come in at the last second.

 

[rumman]

This Tampa team is playing much better than the Tampa teams that have lost to the Leafs this year. Your making a huge assumption if you think they will only have to play one of them. They are in tough the next few games and could find themselves in 3rd by the end of next week.

@Evilhomer jinxing the team early this year, the optimism is infectious…….

 

[GQS]

Bruins fans are pretty sour on their entire team. They're going to miss the playoffs, pretty normal to feel your players suck. If they're saying that Carlo isn't a top 4 dman, then they're being unrealistic.

As for Minten, he's got 6 goals and 7 assists in 26 games with the Marlies. In addition, he has a -10 with a good Marlie team. If you're waiting from him to turn into anything more than a 3C you'll be waiting a long time.

I think most Bruins fans are realistic about how well or poorly their players are doing just as Leafs fans are and they're saying that old Carlo is good and current Carlo not so much. Again lets just hope we get old Carlo otherwise we got screwed on top of giving a 1st to them.

 

[Jmo89]

Obviously you haven’t seen the blossoming of Holmberg!!!

Sounds like a book title for when he scores the Stanley Cup winning goal.

 

[Confucius]

Yeah, it says a lot about ME that there's a collection of posters around here that declare the season over after every loss and whine about every move the team makes or doesn't make...

But that’s different than what you said. You said people would rather be right than see the team succeed. Why would someone would think that way? Probably because that’s how they feel.

 

[Zero1]

Said it before the biggest win for the Leafs is that Dallas established the ceiling for both Knies and MM after signing Rantanen and Johnson.

Lol the Leafs play by their own (stupid) rules. They have their own cap structure where everyone gets overpaid.

 

[MilkofthePoppy]

We got a f***ing mean defense... Love this deal, hate the one for Laughton.

 

[Advanced stats]

Leafs also believed that guys like Mason Marchment and Trevor Moore didn't have much more offensive upside than what they showed in their few games with the team and it turned out that they did have more to give when they were given larger roles

Toronto doesn't have time to let those players develop though. If we're constantly just spinning our tires to develop players for 5 years down the road that's no good either.

Obviously the play is to trade the "maybes" for current talent to help us win in the next few years.

 

[Smif]

I am telling you Matthews, Marner, JT and Nylander dont have bite.

Compare the top six of Florida and it's a laughable comparison.

They were well behind the Leafs a few years ago. They traded for Matthews Tkachuk and now they have Bennett, Reinhart, Barkov, Marchand.

If they meet it would be a battle between Leafs tough D vs Floridas forward bite. We cannot expect our core to show up now all of a sudden, can we?

Barkov and Reinhart don't have bite and same thing with Verhaeghe. They're good but not exactly gritty. The three guys are Tkachuk (who's hurt), Bennett and Marchand, but he's old now and never drops the gloves, he really shouldn't be someone anyone is afraid of.

The last time we played FLA in the playoffs we didn't have Knies (got hurt and was 19), Tanev, McMann, Domi, Laughton, Carlo, OEL. I think we'll be ok.

Btw, Florida's core is older than ours. Barkov, Bennett, Verhaeghe, Reinhart vs Matthews, Marner, Nylander, Rielly.

 

[Sypher04]

I think most Bruins fans are realistic about how well or poorly their players are doing just as Leafs fans are and they're saying that old Carlo is good and current Carlo not so much. Again lets just hope we get old Carlo otherwise we got screwed on top of giving a 1st to them.

I’m sure our management have done their due diligence and I tend to agree that their lack of overall success this year not only clouds opinions of fans but also those struggles could be contributing to any Carlo struggles that might be valid

 

[al secord]

I'm going to puke seeing Minten in a spoked B in a few years

You won't be able to see him with 2 more Stanley Cup rings in your eyes.

 

[Gabriel426]

Unfortunately I'm sure the argument will be made that before tax Marner will still need more than 12M.

It is not just Dallas but the fact that Avs and Canes also offered 12mil or less showed teams are unwilling to pay 12mil more for players like MM and Rantanen

 

[thusk]

I'm fine with getting a player like Carlo if he's at his best, but that's the thing when it seems like he hasn't been at his best for a while. Maybe he'll be good again with a change of scenery, but I'm not exactly feeling reassured and full of optimism when few Bruins fans are sad to see him go and were hoping Sweeney would trade him than keep him.

Carlo is kind of dman who need a more offensive minded dman with him. He played a lot by exemple with Krug and been fantastic together.

Rielly need a guy able to clear the front of the net and be the shutdown guy in the other side.

OEl moving down on 3rd pair and could move up in case of an injury.

Leafs never been even close to have that quality of d and leafs got it right now.

 

[Community]

Toronto doesn't have time to let those players develop though. If we're constantly just spinning our tires to develop players for 5 years down the road that's no good either.

Obviously the play is to trade the "maybes" for current talent to help us win in the next few years.

Yes and no. Our lineup wouldve looked a lot worse today if we had traded Knies and/or McMann.

If Minten only had the value of a 2nd, we should've traded a 2nd instead. Minten might've been an important bottom 6 contributer to the Leafs within the next 2 years.

 

[Gallagbi]

The leafs will only have to beat one of them, and they have pretty easily handled Tampa over the past couple of years.

True. Literally the only team we have a playoff winning record against in the cap era.

 

[ToneDog]

We got a f***ing mean defense... Love this deal, hate the one for Laughton.

Without Benoit, I'd say they are more competent than mean, assuming playoff Rielly makes an appearance.

 

[Evilhomer]

This Tampa team is playing much better than the Tampa teams that have lost to the Leafs this year. Your making a huge assumption if you think they will only have to play one of them. They are in tough the next few games and could find themselves in 3rd by the end of next week.

This Tampa team isn't playing much better. They have had a nice run in their last 10 games because they have played mostly terrible teams (Columbus, Buffalo, Detroit, Seattle, Montreal, Ottawa twice...). Before that stretch, they weren't much more than a .500ish team.

 

[GQS]

Toronto doesn't have time to let those players develop though. If we're constantly just spinning our tires to develop players for 5 years down the road that's no good either.

Obviously the play is to trade the "maybes" for current talent to help us win in the next few years.

I understand the Leafs are in the 'win now' mode, I just don't think we need to give up what little decent prospects we have left especially when this core hasn't shown that going 'all in' would work when Dubas did it a couple of years ago and all it got us was an extra round of playoff games.

 

[Doublerum1975]

15 percent retained to?