Confirmed Trade: [TOR/SEA] Mark Giordano (50% retained) and Colin Blackwell for 2022 2nd, 2023 2nd, 2024 3rd

[General Fanager]

James Duthie has knocked out the NHL phone lines

Poor guy. Tomorrow will suck for him.....

 

[sansabri]

jesus, enough with the slow roll

 

[Thirty Seven]

I wonder if the Insiders seen the return and then stopped trusting their source.

 

[DucksUnited]

Just come out and say you hope because thats what this really is.

Asking the team to retain always includes extra. So Leaf fans thinking this is 2 seconds or some crap aren’t in reality

 

[hamzarocks]

Dermott+2nd + 3rd to a 3rd team to retain should be the max we pay

 

[Vukotal Recall]

We also got Bunting, Kase and Kampf, who have all been excellent. Lyabushkin has fit in well so far too. Regardless, scouts don’t get final say.

You got Bunting because of the Ontario/Soo connection and he gave Leafs massive discount. You got Kase because every other team wasn't willing to risk his obvious concussion history. Kampf was a good signing for what he brings, which isn't that much.

 

[Just Linda]

Ppl like you are a joke lmaooo. Gio is a miss without even playin a game? Foligno got injuried lol mzarek and ritchie i agree but ritchie was a cheap sign.

Gio played a lot of games this year, it's been pretty clear what he is. He's not the solution to the Leafs problems on D, he's declined a lot and in the ways the Leafs need most (losing battles especially net front).

Leafs locking into him as the solution shows that their leadership fails to understand what the problem is and has an inability to access how to fix those problems.

They have a murderers row to get out of the Atlantic this year and just acquired a piece that is redundant to what they already have without addressing what they don't have. That piece comes with a cap hit that prevents them from addressing the glaring needs they have.

Its obvious what the Leafs needed and anyone who's watched much of Gio can see that it wasn't him. I'd call that a huge failing of the pro scouts, one of a long line of many.

 

[Mike Jones]

jesus, enough with the slow roll

Yeah - makes me wonder if there really is a third team involved. Or they need to tell a player he's been traded to Seattle.

 

[SensFan1010]

eberle in on the deal??

 

[BatVader]

Poor guy. Tomorrow will suck for him.....

He’s used to it… happens every year…lol

 

[Lazlo Hollyfeld]

I know everyone is eager for the Leafs to get screwed here, but as an outsider would a 1st rounder be so awful? It's likely going to be in the mid to late 20s, and isn't this a weak draft?

 

[CanadienShark]

Not surprising. I could see Liljegren being part of the deal. Amirov might be of interest to Seattle, but not sure Toronto moves him.

 

[hamzarocks]

Knies will piss me off. More then our 1st

Yea for sure

Knies if he's not a leaf should mean Jacob Chychuran is one

Otherwise it's a shit trade for the names on the market

 

[LEAFANFORLIFE23]

I have a feeling it is taking so long because "it's bigger than that"

anybody remembers the Phaneuf trade to the Leafs will know why I qouted that

 

[Hockey 4 Life]

Asking the team to retain always includes extra. So Leaf fans thinking this is 2 seconds or some crap aren’t in reality

Guess we will have to wait and see, but you know deep down you wanna see the leafs get fleeced.

 

[Gardner McKay]

I know everyone is eager for the Leafs to get screwed here, but as an outsider would a 1st rounder be so awful? It's likely going to be in the mid to late 20s, and isn't this a weak draft?

If that is all it is, considering Seattle will retain, kinda fair IMO.

 

[GirardSpinorama]

Keith also has almost 400 more games played in that span, Gio is a late bloomer with relatively low miles on him compared to other D this age.

Is that just NHL?

 

[LEAFANFORLIFE23]

Not surprising. I could see Liljegren being part of the deal. Amirov might be of interest to Seattle, but not sure Toronto moves him.

Amiriov has a brain toumor he's fighting for his life right now

 

[Isaac Nootin]

I know everyone is eager for the Leafs to get screwed here, but as an outsider would a 1st rounder be so awful? It's likely going to be in the mid to late 20s, and isn't this a weak draft?

It is a weak draft, but 1st round picks are still valuable. That being said I'd much rather give up this year's 1st than next year's.

 

[hamzarocks]

Not surprising. I could see Liljegren being part of the deal. Amirov might be of interest to Seattle, but not sure Toronto moves him.

Lilijgren isn't going to be moved for a rental especially when he'll be better than Giordano as soon as next year. He's playing great hockey right now

Amirov with his recent health issue isn't going to be traded. Hopefully he beats the tumor and gets healthy for himself first and foremost

 

[Yackiberg8]

Looking forward to the haters in here calling it an overpayment regardless of what the trade details are.

 

[Isaac Nootin]

I know everyone is eager for the Leafs to get screwed here, but as an outsider would a 1st rounder be so awful? It's likely going to be in the mid to late 20s, and isn't this a weak draft?

It is a weak draft, but 1st round picks are still valuable. That being said I'd much rather give up this year's 1st

Sources saying it's Knies and two 1sts

Why are these troll posts even allowed.

 

[Cotton]

You got Bunting because of the Ontario/Soo connection and he gave Leafs massive discount. You got Kase because every other team wasn't willing to risk his obvious concussion history. Kampf was a good signing for what he brings, which isn't that much.

Nothing you posted refutes anything I said. And Kampf brings a lot, good depth player.

 

[bl02]

Leafs shouldn't do this but literally every top team in their division is making a spalsh. The pressure must be insane to make a deal for Dubas

 

[DucksUnited]

Knies will piss me off. More then our 1st

First + Knies is kinda fair imo. I mean these defenseman have been super super expensive