In 2023-24, the Leafs picked up nine regular-season and 7 playoff games of Joel Edmundson for the third-round pick they acquired from the Islanders for Engvall, and Chicago's 2025 fifth-round draft pick.They still took way too long to move him.
I think that paltry return was much better than extending him, in view of the deal that Lou was prepared to offer for seven years at $3-million per. Even the one-year $2.25 deal that Engvall had been on at the time of the trade was a bit much.
Looks like Pierre will be a boat anchor for the Isles for quite a while longer -- five and a half years left on that contract, and I doubt that anyone would take it off their hands.