Confirmed with Link: Leafs Trade: Liljegren to San Jose for Matt Benning, 3rd and 6th

[Rare Jewel]

Once you qualify him, he was arbitration eligible. Meaning he wouldn't accept 1.4, would go to arbitration and who knows what he gets (probably 3.5+).

The options were to either not qualify him at all and let him become a free agent, or qualify him and negotiate something similar to what he'd get in arbitration.

Or offer 1 year @ $1.7. The 2nd year was unnecessary especially @ $3m

But as it turned out the coach didn't really like him anyway...

 

[banks]

By the start of next year I'll have forgotten Liljegren so much that when there's a TOR/SJS square in a Puckdoku game I'll answer Kyle Wellwood way before this guy pops into my mind.

 

[All Mod Cons]

The scaremongering with moving this guy was right up there with Samwise Lafferty.

 

[Menzinger]

Went to the worst team in the league.

Not sure how any Leafs defender would do on that team?

Wonder if Leafs will keep those picks 2025 - 3rd., 2026 - 6th.

That 3rd screams "Tre's annual depth defencemen tdl acquisition" to me.

Though they may keep it if they opt to trade the 2nd this year instead

 

[DarkKnight]

The scaremongering with moving this guy was right up there with Samwise Lafferty.

He isn’t an NHL D man on a serious playoff team. We’d seen enough, it was over. He doesn’t have the hockey IQ to process the game, that was his MO going back to the Marlies and it never changed here. People fell in love with him, but he just isn’t very good. Teams didn’t want him,, lucky we got what we did.

 

[IPS]

I remember the days when we were "holding Liljegren back" by not having a top pair of him and Rielly. People would lose their minds over Lyubhskin and Schenn getting that spot instead.

 

[Kiwi]

That 3rd screams "Tre's annual depth defencemen tdl acquisition" to me.

Though they may keep it if they opt to trade the 2nd this year instead

I think he's going to trade both, we need a center to