Should we risk it? (chemistry, I mean).
Absolutely not, not for league min, but someone will bite and in 2-3 years he’ll be right back where he started.
These aren’t isolated incidents, the guy’s a piece of shit.
The Leafs can’t afford to bring in anybody with term after the season, and need to shed money to sign Jackie.
This is not a year to trade a 1st. I’d do a package like this:
Dermott, at 1.5 for another year and able to play every game, worth not much, maybe a 3rd to the right team on his own, but a nice kicker in a deal, with added time to assess.
Ritchie has negative value but it’s only a year at 2.5, some team can eat it, if not retain but no more than 750k.
One of Robertson or Amirov, I’d prefer keeping Amirov, because you need to include value.
A pick as high as a 2nd, but not this year.
(I like Kerfoot and have no problem keeping him, but it’s all up to the numbers.)
For another skilled forward UFA, like Giroux, Radulov, Perron, Forsberg, Dustin Brown or Ryan Strome.
Or a UFA D like Klingberg, Goligoski or Stralman.
Maybe I’d throw in the 2024 or 2025 1st for G, Forsberg or Klinger, but they’d have to send picks or prospects with.
Probably dreaming on several fronts but that’s about all they can do under a flat cap.
That damn third year on the Marleau contract, when they could have given him 2x10 if they wanted, started a domino effect that’s still going.
