Confirmed Trade: [TOR/STL/MIN] O'Reilly, Acciari, Pillar to TOR; Abramov, Gaudette, ‘23 1st, ‘23 3rd, ‘24 2nd to STL; ‘25 4th to MIN

[leafsfan5]

lol Leafs fans weren't willing to give up half that for a much better player (Meier)

I mean a lot of us were willing to deal firsts + Knies, but realistically the Leafs were going to get outbid by Carolina/NJ

Might as well adjust our attention and get someone else management likes

 

[HockeyVirus]

Don't really get the Leafs all in thing.. They bought but this is far from all in. Still have all their top prospects, all next years first, all their roster players.

Dubas can easily recoup a first at the draft if he wanted to. This improves the team a lot for really nothing more than a late first. Rest is whatever

 

[AvroArrow]

lol Leafs fans weren't willing to give up half that for a much better player (Meier)

Show me one post, lol

 

[Face Of Bear]

Big price for a player who may have lost his edge but O'Rielly is still exactly the kind of player you add for a serious cup run. Dubas needs to save his job and everyone wants to win now. O'Rielly slots perfectly into our bottom 6 and can be a difference maker.

 

[notdoneyet]

Plot twist. Rangers move up and leafs faces them instead

We can’t face them until the third round. Have to play Tampa first then Boston.

 

[Ugene Magic]

I think this pays off for them. As it does for St. Louis.

 

[SensFan1010]

Why is dubas addressing things that arent an issue. I understand the team lacks grit but the d core and the goalies are a way bigger issue imo.

 

[JoeSakic13]

Getting a 1st round pick for ROR is crazy. Blues doing things right.

….wait is it?

Chairot > O’Reilly?

 

[Kelly]

Will be interested to see who he plays with in Toronto. I think you need to give him linemates that have some skill and can play a puck possession style if you want to get the most out of him.

I feel like he would work well with Tavares and Marner

 

[HofT]

He's the type of player the Leafs need and hopefully he performs well.

 

[AvroArrow]

Why is dubas addressing things that arent an issue. I understand the team lacks grit but the d core and the goalies are a way bigger issue imo.

New drinking game, take a shot every time a person makes this comment. Our D has been our biggest strength by far.

 

[izzy]

Theres more to defending than defensemen lol

 

[sfvega]

Acciari along with ROR is what makes this trade so good for us. We get 2 solid 2 way players, capable of playing on the PK and depth scoring. ROR is likely our 3C, ability to slide up into the top 6 if needed. Him being a local guy gives us a strong chance at re-signing him as well.

The price was pretty expensive, but we didn't move any roster players, this is a solid addition.

No no no. Acciari is a stud on the bottom 6, but you could get him alone for a 3rd. A 2nd at absolute best. That doesn't change the complete about-face Toronto fans have had on ROR's value. It was a solid addition for the Leafs before, but very few north of the border agreed until it broke. It's entirely disingenuous.

 

[rynryn]

Pro rated. It’s not an actual million

totally get that. but in the currency we're using (cap space) it's $1m.

 

[TMLeafer]

All these clueless "last stand", "any cost", "mortgage the future" posts. For a late first, future 2nd/4th and some contract fillers.

That said, I wasn't hoping for ROR but I think he can be a nice fit. Keeping top prospects intact, it's pretty hard to complain about it for me.

 

[izzy]

i do hate having to now cheer for the leafs

 

[Mike Liut]

ROR is still plenty good. It’s signing him to a 3-4 yr deal that id be worried about. He’ll be a beast in the playoffs.

 

[MoreMogilny]

Why is dubas addressing things that arent an issue. I understand the team lacks grit but the d core and the goalies are a way bigger issue imo.

Scoring depth and grit have been the issue, though.

Goaltending has been more than fine. The D isn’t a problem either. I wouldn’t be opposed to adding on the blue line but it definitely wasn’t their biggest issue. Now that they’ve acquired ROR I could see that being the next move, but a minor one if anything.

 

[uncleben]

These trades always confuse me. Was ROR traded to Minnesota on paper and then they retained, or can you just straight up retain other teams player's salary?

It's technically multiple trades happening.
ROR would need to be traded to MIN by STL and then a second trade would need to be run with MIN trading ROR to TOR with retention

There's no actual three way trades

To the best of my parsing it looks like this:

[TABLE=collapse]
[TR]
[TD]1
[/TD]

[TD]To Minnesota Wild

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Ryan O'Reilly (50%)[/TD]
[TD]To St. Louis Blues

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Josh Pillar[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]2
[/TD]

[TD]To Minnesota Wild

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TOR 4th-round pick in 2025[/TD]
[TD]To Toronto Maple Leafs

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Ryan O'Reilly (50%)[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]3




[/TD]

[TD]To St. Louis Blues

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Mikhail Abramov
Adam Gaudette
TOR 1st-round pick in 2023
OTT 3rd-round pick in 2023
TOR 2nd-round pick in 2024[/TD]
[TD]To Toronto Maple Leafs

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Noel Acciari
Josh Pillar


[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]

 

[JoeSakic13]

ROR is still plenty good. It’s signing him to a 3-4 yr deal that id be worried about. He’ll be a beast in the playoffs.

I’m honestly not sure they can sign him. Unless they ship out Nylander or something. The price to land O’Reilly was higher because of the retention.

 

[Rob Brown]

Leafs already have Tavares and Matthews down the middle so of course, they need to throw away a first rounder in a great draft to get another big name center.

Another Playstation move for that nerd Dubas

He hasn't even skated at practice with the team and you're already chirping about it. And if Dubas did nothing you'd be here doing the same thing.

 

[AvroArrow]

No no no. Acciari is a stud on the bottom 6, but you could get him alone for a 3rd. A 2nd at absolute best. That doesn't change the complete about-face Toronto fans have had on ROR's value. It was a solid addition for the Leafs before, but very few north of the border agreed until it broke. It's entirely disingenuous.

I think we all agree it was an expensive price tag, shouldn't be a debate about that. The biggest thing for us is that we added 2 quality players to our current roster and didn't lose a single guy. Just futures, and we still have assets to bring in another player. It's the 75% retention that drove the price up so high.

 

[Buresflyingelbow]

Luke Schenn is going there for the 23 second round pick. Book it.

 

[Oliewud]

Great trade. Exactly what toronto needed for a deep playoff run IMO

Toronto makes it past round 1 this year. You heard it here first.

 

[NewEraGM]

Leafs are better today than yesterday. But boy ohh boy they better win.

Part of me fails to see how this is any different than the foligno trade. This isn’t the oreilly from 5 years ago