Confirmed Trade: [TOR/BOS] Brandon Carlo (15% retained) for Fraser Minten, cond. 2026 1st round pick (top 5 protected), 2025 4th round pick

[I Just Like]

Hmmm. With what Toronto has vs have lacked, Carlo + Laughton are good adds. Goaltending remains insanely suspect. But Edmonton didnt address theirs either, and I’d be a hypocrite if I haven’t said 100x that goaltending is the most lottery ticket position in the game.

If the team can get to the playoffs with an average goalie, the goalie is NHL caliber at minimum and can get hot behind a healthy team playing well. If the team needs a goalie whose going to steal them 20+ points to make the post season in the first place, it doesn’t likely matter - the goalie likely can’t elevate their game much higher than it already is, and it’s way harder for an 18 man roster to get hot and suddenly play Cup winning hockey all the way to a championship.

In other words, a top 10 roster with a #25 goalie can reasonably believe in themselves to play their ass off supporting that goalie and the goalie to get hot and have a good chance at winning. A #25 roster with a top 10 goalie is only making rhe playoffs because the goalie masked the fact that they’re the 25th team in the league. The goalie doesn’t have much room to go up and it’s a lot less likely a #25 roster is going to elevate him to get a Cup.

 

[Schennanigans]

So pens are getting dewar and Timmons.

 

[I Hate Philadelphia]

My favorite thing is when a player gets traded and every fan of the traded players team proceeds to say how about that player is. Boston fans are probably right though

Difference here is that any Bruins fan with a brain has been saying Carlo is terrible for years.

 

[34]

#6 dman? He's never averaged less than 18:40 a year his entire career. This will be very similar to when Colorado added Manson

Carlo is a scrub. Bottom pairing D man.

Treliving looking like a real f***ing loser today with the trades he made

 

[domiwroze]

Minten traded? Watch the Leafs fan that were claiming him to be a lock 1st liner now say that he was at most a good 3rd liner

 

[Aashir]

Well the Leafs just paid a 1st and a blue chip prospect for 4th liner Laughton.

Minton is going to be a solid #2 C. I guess he is worth 3 firsts.

minten isn't a blue chip prospect lol

he was tracking alright to become a decent 3C

cowan is a better prospect and he is not a blue chip either

 

[McOvechking]

In comparison to the Oilers trade this looks really bad for Toronto

 

[TheDoldrums]

I love everyone rushing to tell Leafs fans about Carlo as if they are not familiar with the players of the Boston Bruins, the division rival they faced in the playoffs last season.

 

[HockeyVirus]

Hmmm. With what Toronto has vs have lacked, Carlo + Laughton are good adds. Goaltending remains insanely suspect. But Edmonton didnt address theirs either, and I’d be a hypocrite if I haven’t said 100x that goaltending is the most lottery ticket position in the game.

If the team can get to the playoffs with an average goalie, the goalie is NHL caliber at minimum and can get hot behind a healthy team playing well. If the team needs a goalie whose going to steal them 20+ points to make the post season in the first place, it doesn’t likely matter - the goalie likely can’t elevate their game much higher than it already is, and it’s way harder for an 18 man roster to get hot and suddenly play Cup winning hockey all the way to a championship.

In other words, a top 10 roster with a #25 goalie can reasonably believe in themselves to play their ass off supporting that goalie and the goalie to get hot and have a good chance at winning. A #25 roster with a top 10 goalie is only making rhe playoffs because the goalie masked the fact that they’re the 25th team in the league. The goalie doesn’t have much room to go up and it’s a lot less likely a #25 roster is going to elevate him to get a Cup.

What are you talking about? Toronto have had the best goaltending as a duo in the NHL this season

 

[Mione134]

My favorite thing is when a player gets traded and every fan of the traded players team proceeds to say how about that player is. Boston fans are probably right though

His regression has been sad to watch as a Bruins fan.

He's like 1 or 2 concussions away from it being bad. Like, he's genuinely taken steps back every year.

If only he'd use his size for snarl. He says away from hits and won't initiate either which is fustrating. But I wish him well. Great guy.

 

[Ciao]

C'est la vie.

Goodbye, Captain Team Canada WJC!

Hello, Big Hulking RHD!

 

[Aashir]

Minten traded? Watch the Leafs fan that were claiming him to be a lock 1st liner now say that he was at most a good 3rd liner

no one claimed he was that man, stop being deluded by leaf hate

we all said he was looking to b a good middle six mostly 3C

 

[dubplatepressure]

minten isn't a blue chip prospect lol

he was tracking alright to become a decent 3C

cowan is a better prospect and he is not a blue chip either

Neither is Grebs.

 

[Coaches Coroner]

Well the Leafs just paid a 1st and a blue chip prospect for 4th liner Laughton.

Minton is going to be a solid #2 C. I guess he is worth 3 firsts.

lmao "blue chip", ya I'm sure you were this high on Minten before.

 

[TCIH]

Toronto got the steady right-handed defenseman they needed. Yes, the price is high, but at some point you have to go for it and I think this Leafs team has the best chance of any in the last several years to go deep, especially with the way Berube has them playing. Good on Treliving for making a move.

 

[IveGotToBeMe]

I like Carlo but he's not a difference maker. Will get a ton of ice time but there's no offense there for sure. This should help Toronto defensively but he has had a rough season (but who hasn't on the B's with the exception of Pastrnak and maybe Geekie). I do think a decent prospect and a 1st is an overpay but that's the price of doing business this year.

 

[AvroArrow]

Hmmm. With what Toronto has vs have lacked, Carlo + Laughton are good adds. Goaltending remains insanely suspect. But Edmonton didnt address theirs either, and I’d be a hypocrite if I haven’t said 100x that goaltending is the most lottery ticket position in the game.

If the team can get to the playoffs with an average goalie, the goalie is NHL caliber at minimum and can get hot behind a healthy team playing well. If the team needs a goalie whose going to steal them 20+ points to make the post season in the first place, it doesn’t likely matter - the goalie likely can’t elevate their game much higher than it already is, and it’s way harder for an 18 man roster to get hot and suddenly play Cup winning hockey all the way to a championship.

In other words, a top 10 roster with a #25 goalie can reasonably believe in themselves to play their ass off supporting that goalie and the goalie to get hot and have a good chance at winning. A #25 roster with a top 10 goalie is only making rhe playoffs because the goalie masked the fact that they’re the 25th team in the league. The goalie doesn’t have much room to go up and it’s a lot less likely a #25 roster is going to elevate him to get a Cup.

I take it you haven't watched a single game this year

This is the best and most stable goaltending we've had since Ed Belfour lmao

 

[McFlyingV]

Holy f***, Toronto just got taken to the bank at gunpoint. Minton and a first for a number 6D man.

Wowwwwww

Yeah not gonna lie, unless Carlo has some kind of revelation after this trade he is not even close to the player he was 2 or 3 years ago. He's essentially average defensively and downright useless offensively/as a puck mover. He's physical, but you could have had Luke Schenn a very similar type of D for a 2nd and 4th (which was also a big overpay for a #6/7D).

 

[I Hate Philadelphia]

C'est la vie.

Goodbye, Captain Team Canada WJC!

Hello, Big Hulking RHD!

6'5" and plays like he's 5'5". Enjoy.

 

[TheBeastCoast]

Minten traded? Watch the Leafs fan that were claiming him to be a lock 1st liner now say that he was at most a good 3rd liner

Find one post of a Leaf fans expecting him to be a "lock 1st liner". Just baseless horseshit honestly.

 

[HuGort]

Going to be long rebuild for Boston. Their farm is weak and this is not a great draft

 

[AuraSphere]

Wow leafs got fleeced - minten + 1st??? should have been one or the other... what is happening this TDL lol...

I would have given that for Lindholm... not Carlo

 

[leafsfan5]

Hmmm. With what Toronto has vs have lacked, Carlo + Laughton are good adds. Goaltending remains insanely suspect. But Edmonton didnt address theirs either, and I’d be a hypocrite if I haven’t said 100x that goaltending is the most lottery ticket position in the game.

If the team can get to the playoffs with an average goalie, the goalie is NHL caliber at minimum and can get hot behind a healthy team playing well. If the team needs a goalie whose going to steal them 20+ points to make the post season in the first place, it doesn’t likely matter - the goalie likely can’t elevate their game much higher than it already is, and it’s way harder for an 18 man roster to get hot and suddenly play Cup winning hockey all the way to a championship.

In other words, a top 10 roster with a #25 goalie can reasonably believe in themselves to play their ass off supporting that goalie and the goalie to get hot and have a good chance at winning. A #25 roster with a top 10 goalie is only making rhe playoffs because the goalie masked the fact that they’re the 25th team in the league. The goalie doesn’t have much room to go up and it’s a lot less likely a #25 roster is going to elevate him to get a Cup.

Stolarz is literally a top 3 goalie in the NHL this season

It's our biggest strength

 

[Ledge And Dairy]

Carlo is a scrub. Bottom pairing D man.

Treliving looking like a real f***ing loser today with the trades he made

Sure man, inhale that cope

 

[McFlyingV]

I take it you haven't watched a single game this year

This is the best and most stable goaltending we've had since Ed Belfour lmao

Agreed. Toronto's goalie tandem has been great. Couldn't help a brother out and send one of them our way?