Confirmed Trade: [TOR/TBL] Darren Raddysh (signs 8 years, $8.5M AAV) for 2026 5th round pick (MOD WARNING 253)

[Volica]

Many GM got saved here is my thinking time will tell.

There are like 5-6 guys that end up looking a little brighter vs July 1.
Raddysh had 'bad team giving up way too much money' written all over it. Like this had CBJ or Seattle Kraken written all over it.

 

[Leaf Fans]

Well that's everyone's plan. Mike Milbury, Garth Snow, and Jim Benning all wanted to win a Cup too.

Yup and many more like Bowman, Sather and Pollock. Probably every GM

 

[Grand Admiral Thrawn]

TO gonna TO!

New management same shit lol

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

The Leafs probably had an outlier season as well

you better hope so....I don't see them finishing ahead of Buffalo, TB, Florida and Montreal

all much better teams

 

[FriendlyGhost92]

Oops…

 

[Frenzy31]

Not a Leafs fan but I think that contact is market value.

There is clear risk with it, due to possibly being a 1 year wonder and playing for a strong Lightning team. But this was likely what multiple teams would have paid for him - so fair market value.

To me Toronto is coming to the end of it contender window (depending on Matthews) so this makes a lot of sense. They really are not worried about 5 years from now.

 

[Vegaspunk]

Dang 8 years is still questionable but he took a nice hometown discount, easily could have gotten 10+ somewhere else

 

[BlueBaron]

8 years for a dude that's going to be 31 half way through the first year of his contract and has one good season. When has a contract like that ever worked out for a team? I get why they did it,they have no choice but to either rebuild or maybe huge gambles but this is going to be ugly. You have decades of free agency to pull from give me examples.

Oh right, because old players with large contracts never get buried or moved so all franchises that have them are instantly destroyed right? New to hockey?

 

[BeranekAndNeck]

There is a very very solid chance they finish ahead of Edmonton as well.

The lottery winning Leafs? That team?

 

[frederixx]

The real question is; which Raddysh will the get? The PPG dman from last season, the 35pts dman he has been the previous 2 years, the guy that didn't show up in this year's playoffs?

Are they paying for a 1 year wonder and a guy that again, can't elevate his play comes the playoffs or for a guy that only needed a real chance?

I personally wouldn't sign him and didn't like his play, but their options are limited.

 

[KniesMadeBradyCry]

8yrs lmao

In 8 years the cap will be close to 200 million. It will be #5 Dman money

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

Copium . What do you think he would have got on July 1st?

the same? he's 30 and has had 1 season with more than 40 points

 

[Leaf Fans]

you better hope so....I don't see them finishing ahead of Buffalo, TB, Florida and Montreal

all much better teams

Of course I hope so.

 

[LBloor]

Excellent question! I think currently they are the most similar.

Tampa is much deeper in talent than Toronto.

 

[KniesMadeBradyCry]

The lottery winning Leafs? That team?

Better forwards, better D, better goaltending. Yep I could see it.

 

[KniesMadeBradyCry]

Tampa is much deeper in talent than Toronto.

Certainly not

 

[The don godfather]

Amazing pickup for leafs. 5th round pick for a d who just put up 70 pts

Did it only once why it's a firestorm here so far the yay say a few and the nay are many .

 

[River Meadow]

8 years to a 30 year old undrafted dman who had 1 good year this past year at age 30 on a super offensive Tampa team.

Good job Toronto.

What could go wrong?

 

[ZombosNose]

Oh right, because old players with large contracts never get buried or moved so all franchises that have them are instantly destroyed right? New to hockey?

Your defense of the signing bad signings can be buried? That's not really a ringing endorsement or what I asked.

 

[Crazy Monkey]

Right sided defenceman who can move the puck and man the PP are a valuable commodity. Term is long but the cap hit will be very manageable especially in 2-3 years

 

[Artaud]

also nice that after all the Marner discourse a local guy specifically wanted to come home and play for the Leafs, this is not a contract he'd be hard to duplicate from someone else on July 1st.

Why do you get the notion he chose the Leafs? They traded for him.

And no, he could not get this contract on July 1st because of the 8 year term (which is the most questionnable part of it)

 

[Jag68Sid87]

Tampa is much deeper in talent than Toronto.

Yeah, we were talking about uniform colors.


I'll show myself out...

 

[Buckley]

That was easy.

 

[MCR74]

The lottery winning Leafs? That team?

Speaking of lottery, wait til Babcock drives McDavid out of Edmonton. It's coming.

 

[TheDoldrums]

Why do you get the notion he chose the Leafs? They traded for him.

what? They signed him. He knew by waiting 11 more days he'd be a free agent. This is him wanting to go to Toronto.