Trades & Free Agency Thread: 2024-2025 Season Edition

[Sypher04]

Ideally you’re acquiring guys with some term if you’re using the more premium assets.

That said, we are in a 4 year window right now so sitting on your hands and not doing your best to augment the team for a run is also not really acceptable either.

 

[thusk]

I'd like to be proven wrong but I'm still not buying that Stolarz/Woll and especially McCabe-Tanev/Rielly-Hakanpaa/OEL-Timmins/Benoit are top goaltending and defensive units league wide. Not that the bottom 6 scoring depth is good by any means either.

On one hand it'd be a shame to waste another year of Matthews/Nylander/Marner prime but I don't think there's a rental on the market who makes the team legit contenders. Hope they don't bleed more important assets for someone who's gone after 10-20 games and a first/second round flame out.

Also I don't know why anyone would be excited to add Ryan Strome. Shouldn't be anywhere near a faceoff circle, isn't fast; physical, offensively effective (relative to salary), or defensively responsible.

Just for fun, for you who are the legit contender right now?

Florida who one of 10 worst defensive team this season?

NYR who gad been a deceptikn most of season

Carolina who always the same story year after year

NJ whowas a nob-playoff team last year?

Washington??? really???

Tampa with no depht or Boston with no punch at all?

tell me who should be real pretender if Toronto are not because sorry i don't see at all

 

[ULF_55]

Ideally you’re acquiring guys with some term if you’re using the more premium assets.

That said, we are in a 4 year window right now so sitting on your hands and not doing your best to augment the team for a run is also not really acceptable either.

Doing nothing is usually not a good approach unless your team is so superior a change would degrade it.

Leafs are a top 10 team, so they do not fit in the can't improve category.

Closer to the deadline they should know if they're a legitimate favorite, but even then they have a longer term commitment to their fans / season ticket holders / sponsors to maintain a good level of performance year after year.

As much as rhetoric says, "we'll take a Cup at any cost!", the Leafs aren't a secondary product like in some American cities where hockey is second or third or fourth in pecking order for sports dollars.

Emptying the cupboard for a chance at winning a couple rounds ... not sure I'm onboard for that. Oh, not much in the cupboard so it isn't like dealing from a position of strength.

 

[Skullz]

Rielly has been extremely disappointing for me this year. He is locked up for a long time.

I wonder if we might consider a move there? He has arguably become our third most important defencemen after Tanev and McCabe.

This would be an offseason thing tho. See how the postseason goes.

 

[TheShape]

Rielly has been extremely disappointing for me this year. He is locked up for a long time.

I wonder if we might consider a move there? He has arguably become our third most important defencemen after Tanev and McCabe.

This would be an offseason thing tho. See how the postseason goes.

Full NMC. Only core player to take less money to stay, it would be a long shot. I think Rielly's here until the window closes.

 

[ULF_55]

Full NMC. Only core player to take less money to stay, it would be a long shot. I think Rielly's here until the window closes.

I think he's settled in Ontario now.

Maybe before family ... but he did move away from Vancouver for the WHL at 16, but I'd guess little interest in uprooting his family today.

How is he at face-offs?