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

[leafsfan5]

ya I misread

I'll still take a TB team until they actually fall off
Buffalo is elite now with a Norris trophy contender on the back end
Montreal is young and growing and getting better...coming off a Conference final
Sens are young and elite analytically

I think TB/Toronto are close, Toronto owns them head to head but TB is very well run and I'll give them the edge since they were elite last year
Buffalo/MTL had relatively unimpressive underlying numbers, and Montreal just fluked their way into an ECF appearance. I think they struggle more than people expect
I'm pretty high on Ottawa as well, they seem like a mini-Carolina

Overall, none of those teams are miles ahead of Toronto and we'll see how the rest of the summer plays out before making definitive statements on who ranks where imo. The only team Toronto can't catch up to is Florida, who is a goalie away from running the league again imo

Two teams that missed the playoffs in Toronto and Florida, only Tampa that is comfortably better than Toronto is…Florida.

Absolute fantasy land

Yes, Toronto/Florida underperformed and will return back to being playoff teams next year. Florida gets the benefit of the doubt of being the best, the rest are jumbled and we'll see how they play out

You just drafted 1OA, every playoff team is comfortably better than you.

Not really, Toronto isn't a typical 1OA team or anywhere close to it. It took a combination of horrific coaching, injuries, terrible management and players tuning out to get us 5th overall and luck into the first pick. That won't happen again, Berube gone alone will bump the team up a fair amount

 

[sampollock]

Treliving is a moron and Leafs nation are thankful every day his incompetence stopped him from making Knies a Hab.

It didn't make sense at the TDL and doesn't now. If Knies is moved the return will be a lot different.

This front office has a vision and plan

funny you are so confident in the crooked GM that no one wanted.
he may just be the guy that the leaf need let's see after a couple years

 

[sampollock]

Radish is a good D man, we just need to see if it is one year or he is good to go at 30

 

[Lahey]

Ppl trashing this are... not even gonna say it.

Imagine adding a RHD #2 for a 5th round pick at a reasonable cap rate.. every team in the league would have made this deal. he wanted to come home.

 

[ITM]

Hey. I'm interested to see how it works out. I just wonder how much of these decisions are short-sighted fan and owner-pressured ones vs making smart decisions for down the road. I know it's a different FO but from going from almost trading your best young piece in Knies for picks and prospects to signing a 30 year old d-man with one season of production under his belt to max term is quite a switch.

The bold is pretty much it; That and the incoming 1OA.

The rest, like needing Woll to be our #1 goalie or ignoring Raddysh’s previous 35 point averaged seasons leaves out a ton of factors advising any number of reasons why the leafs are positioning themselves the way that they have in the last week.

There’s no need to wonder if you contrast what Treliving did and almost accomplished vs what Chaya/Sundin are doing.

 

[Melrose Munch]

Yeah let’s dump precious assets for a higher salary lower end player. That makes sense.

Reilly and a 3rd is not "precious assets"

 

[HockeyVirus]

Benoit is capable of playing bottom pairing minutes. Andrae is unlikely to ever learn how to play well enough in his own zone to belong in the NHL. Bringing in that pylon was subtraction via addition and is exactly why hockey people should be making decisions instead of guys like Chayka who have no understanding of the sport.

Benoit was a fan favorite here not because he can play but because of how he plays. He was bad 2 seasons ago before getting hot and having a very strong playoff for us and then went back to being basically not NHL level last year.

He got caved in last year badly, can't move the puck, produces no offense.

The Leafs D got softer for sure but we needed to trade some grit for actual puck ability.

Well I hope the vision is different than the one Chayka had in Arizona when he traded a 5th for the negotiating rights to Alex Goligoski before signing him to a bad deal.

Difference is he has an actual front office to support him in Toronto.

‘This front office has a vision and plan’

To be fair you said the same about Dubas and Treleving and were one of their biggest cheerleaders for years. How long before you turn on Chayka who doesn’t have a very good track record?

They've told us their plan and are already executing it. They want to be analytically driven and all moves so far have been.

Treliving said he wanted to add snot and then sat on his ass until the last minute every year and made boneheaded panic moves every TDL.

Hope that helps.

 

[leafsfan5]

Like I said every fanbase has a few overly exuberant fans. The days of the current Leafs contending for the Atlantic are far in the rear view mirror and most reasonable fans know that.

Why exactly are they in the rearview mirror? It comes down to Matthews imo, if he can rebound to a ~50 goal player there's no reason Toronto can't bounce back

 

[HockeyVirus]

funny you are so confident in the crooked GM that no one wanted.
he may just be the guy that the leaf need let's see after a couple years

I trust Sundin to be honest. Chayka knows the analytics side of things and Sundin knows what it takes to build a hockey team. Think the partnership can oddly work.

 

[TheKrebsCycle]

Doesn't matter getting Minten alone was a joke but all these picks are ridiculous who cares where it lands I'm sure it will be decent maybe pick number 15.

Probably lower than that but regardless it's a far cry from the 6th overall many were salivating at.....

 

[General Fanager]

Treliving is a moron and Leafs nation are thankful every day his incompetence stopped him from making Knies a Hab.

It didn't make sense at the TDL and doesn't now. If Knies is moved the return will be a lot different.

This front office has a vision and plan

Its John Chayka....simmer down.

 

[TheBeard]

The bold is pretty much it; That and the incoming 1OA.

The rest, like needing Woll to be our #1 goalie or ignoring Raddysh’s previous 35 point averaged seasons leaves out a ton of factors advising any number of reasons why the leafs are positioning themselves the way that they have in the last week.

There’s no need to wonder if you contrast what Treliving did and almost accomplished vs what Chaya/Sundin are doing.

Seems like they’re gonna try and take another run and deal with the aftermath when Matthew’s is gone. I wonder if they’re going after Binnington now.

 

[NastyKnies]

LMFAO

One
Good
Season

Three
Good
Seasons

 

[General Fanager]

I trust Sundin to be honest. Chayka knows the analytics side of things and Sundin knows what it takes to build a hockey team. Think the partnership can oddly work.

what in the world makes you think that?

 

[HockeyVirus]

Its John Chayka....simmer down.

I wonder if his statue will be added to legends row or built somewhere else?

 

[TheKrebsCycle]

I wonder if adding Raddysh and Andrae, who are both puck moving D means the Leafs have offers for Morgan Reilly? He does seem to be redundant.

Here's hoping. Good guy but it's time

 

[HockeyVirus]

what in the world makes you think that?

Who else is more qualified to know what a Toronto team needs to contend than one of the longest serving captains who in recent memory took the team to multiple final 4 finishes?

 

[ITM]

Yikers. He’s 30 going on 31 this September and is already slow. lol.

Darren Raddysh's primary skating weakness is a lack of elite top-end speed and first-step explosiveness. While he has good, reliable straight-line mobility and plays high-mileage minutes, his acceleration and lateral agility can leave him vulnerable in transition against fast, shifty NHL

Yikers indeed!

I love communication skills these days!

Confidence in excess to a degree where if a person really believes something, then just like Dr. Strange and his ability of incantation, simply claiming something makes it true. Yay!

Who knew that February was spelled exactly like September, and Raddysh turning 31 in September means he won’t have to celebrate it again next February!

By the Eye of Agamotto!

Darren Raddysh Hockey Stats and Profile at hockeydb.com

Statistics of Darren Raddysh, a hockey player from Toronto, ONT born Feb 28 1996 who was active from 2012 to 2026.

www.hockeydb.com

 

[CantHaveTkachev]

I trust Sundin to be honest. Chayka knows the analytics side of things and Sundin knows what it takes to build a hockey team. Think the partnership can oddly work.

what hockey team did he build?

 

[Blowfish]

Yikers indeed!

I love communication skills these days!

Confidence in excess to a degree where if a person really believes something, then just like Dr. Strange and his ability of incantation, simply claiming something makes it true. Yay!

Who knew that February was spelled exactly like September, and Raddysh turning 31 in September means he won’t have to celebrate it again next February!

By the Eye of Agamotto!

Darren Raddysh Hockey Stats and Profile at hockeydb.com

Statistics of Darren Raddysh, a hockey player from Toronto, ONT born Feb 28 1996 who was active from 2012 to 2026.

www.hockeydb.com

 

[MoneyManny]

Why exactly are they in the rearview mirror? It comes down to Matthews imo, if he can rebound to a ~50 goal player there's no reason Toronto can't bounce back

Hoping they bounce back is fine, betting that they get 30 more points than last season to make the playoffs is a reach.

 

[TheBeard]

what in the world makes you think that?

What the hell, it worked for Yzerman!

 

[ITM]

Seems like they’re gonna try and take another run and deal with the aftermath when Matthew’s is gone. I wonder if they’re going after Binnington now.

Why?

Could just as easily go after Stolarz’s Stanley Cup winning number one: Sgt. Bob.

 

[BHD]

A defensemen getting a big contract from the Leafs. What could go wrong?

He will be next whipping boy if they don't turn things around.

 

[HockeyVirus]

what hockey team did he build?

Building a cup team as we speak. Sit back and watch