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

[RationalExpectations]

Great deal for the Leafs, still missing a goalie and potential upgrade over Kerfoot but it makes them better without giving up key assets.

 

[Face Of Bear]

Lots of picks for a couple B list rentals

 

[Baksfamous112]

Oh god. I’d be pissed to be a Leafs fans now

 

[AvatarAang]

36 pages of haters waiting for Dubas to give up a 1st for giordano lmao

further proof that toronto is the center of the hockey universe, a 38 year old is getting more attention on this site than Giroux/Lindholm etc.

 

[Daz28]

So the Leafs have spent Dermott, and 3-2nd rounders and didn't hardly move the needle at all? Right?

 

[CycloneSweep]

Seattle is just so badly run.

 

[Ambisextrous]

Honestly good trade

 

[Mickey Marner]

so what is the involvement of sens and canucks? if not then update the title. It’s misinformation

The Hamonic-Dermott side deal.

 

[snowkiddin]

Kind of a waste of picks for the Leafs honestly but at least Gio has experience

 

[93gilmour93]

Oh god. I’d be pissed to be a Leafs fans now

 

[The90]

Narrator: It wasn't.

 

[snowkiddin]

Dubas sheds multiple picks for old man Gio and a 4th liner, and Leaf fans predictably come out of the wood work acting like they've just added prime Scott Neidermayer and Guy Carbonneau.

They still need to fix their goalie issue.

 

[CamelToews]

Absolutely hyped for Blackwell. He will bring what our forward corps lacks in spades.

 

[joepeps]

Oh god. I’d be pissed to be a Leafs fans now

why?

 

[Unbiased Fan]

Does Blackwell crack the leafs roster?

 

[htpwn]

So the other 4th rounders on that team are now worth a 1st also? Sean Farrell?

I mean, he's a point-per-game player in the NCAA as a freshman, with elite underlying numbers.

... and he's 6'3." That is a tantalizing mix of size and skill that is highly, highly valued in the hockey world. He'd absolutely go in the 1st round in a redraft.

 

[Rob Brown]

Dubas sheds multiple picks for old man Gio and a 4th liner, and Leaf fans predictably come out of the wood work acting like they've just added prime Scott Neidermayer and Guy Carbonneau. Nick Foligno trade version 2.0. At least Dubas didn't blow a 1st this year for another one and done postseason.

No one said anything like this. You guys come in here and make shit up with these wild statements about Leafs fans and then you all laugh and like eachother's posts as if it actually happened. You're all so fixated on Toronto, it's hilarious.

Plenty of non-Leafs fans are saying it's a good trade for the Leafs.

 

[canwincup]

Kind of a waste of picks for the Leafs honestly but at least Gio has experience

Experience in losing in the first round haha. Not sure if the Leafs need more of that

 

[Auston Marlander]

Haha bang on. He'll be in the Selke discussions pretty soon here, like how Bunting is being pegged for the Calder.

Show me where the maple leaf touched you.

I'm not sure what team you're a fan of, but I don't remember the last Leafs thread I was in that you were spewing garbage in.

 

[HabsForHire]

It's too bad seattle could retain 50% of gio's age instead

 

[TimeZone]

Does Blackwell crack the leafs roster?

Easily. The Leafs bottom six isn't that great

 

[rocketdan9]

How did the Kraken gm pull this magic trick?

Fantastic return

 

[93gilmour93]

Leafs derangement syndrome still alive and well on hf boards

 

[TimeZone]

Haha bang on. He'll be in the Selke discussions pretty soon here, like how Bunting is being pegged for the Calder.

Are you okay, like mentally?

 

[CanadienShark]

But that's the point. It wasn't just two 2nds and a 3rd for Giordano, they also threw in a useful player in Blackwell. Plus they retained 50%. Both of those should have value, so it seems like Francis instead took the kind of value if neither Blackwell nor retention was included.

I'm pretty sure the ask of a 1st for Giordano was accounting for 50% retention. I think two 2nds was a slight overpayment for Gio at 50%, and a 3rd an underpayment for Blackwell. Basically, the Leafs do fine, but isn't great value like you're making it seem.