Confirmed Trade: [SJS/TOR] Timothy Liljegren for 2025 SJS 3rd round pick, 2026 SJS 6th round pick, Matt Benning

[SeanMoneyHands]

Leafs freeing up cap spac, prepping themselves for the Marner resigning,

 

[coooldude]

You were lumping those two in with Askarov earlier in the thread like they're part of the future nucleus of the team. Then in the same thread you're acting like the die is already cast for Dickinson as being inferior to Buium. How could you or anyone else possibly know that less than a month into the season?

It's like "hey, you never know with defensemen. Maybe these 25 year old guys can show something they haven't yet" and then in the next breath calling the 18 year old a bust.

From a different sharks fan and speaking for more than a few of us ... Don't pay them any mind.

I assume that Matt Benning is the retention in this trade.

The new goss is that Benning was a request to include by the Sharks, so... Yeah. Grier didn't want to gum up the prospect pipeline with a dude who is cooked post-hip surgery. Get a contract off the books so it's one for one. I think Leafs posters who say he'll not likely play a game for y'all are right.

 

[PeE eL DuBoiS]

Lili 17th overall + Sandon 29th overall. Sometimes it's hit or miss with mid to low picks.

Look at our drafting outcome from 2017 - 2020. Look at our D picks since Rielly in 2012.

Not good.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

wasn't long ago Liljegren was playing very well, sucks how he lost his place here. I think he breaks out with SJ and we look like fools

 

[Leaf Fans]

wasn't long ago Liljegren was playing very well, sucks how he lost his place here. I think he breaks out with SJ and we look like fools

We won't. He wasn't going to do it here. Good for him if he does break out with the Sharks - he will get the opportunity to build off mistakes that he could not get in Toronto or most teams.

 

[BlueBaron]

Glorious, this is where HF tells us our guy is better than we think in a feeble attempt to make us feel bad about salvaging something out of player who doesn't fit here. Pretty good return for a bottom pair guy so obviously there is a lot of silliness in this thread.

Certainly disappointing he did not become the top 4 offensive D we hoped for but you can't win them all. We needed picks.