Trades & Free Agency Thread: 2024-2025 Season Edition

[TMLAM34]

We aremt losing, so there is no need to panic or overpay. We need a 3C but at the right cost. Why have the world's best scouting team but no picks ? Minten looks good and is cheap.

I like Minten and think he’s got a bright future ahead of him but I don’t think he’s ready to be a third line centre on a Stanley Cup contender just yet.

 

[Legion34]

We need a top RHD and a c in our pipeline. Lots of wingers and tweeners.

If Cowan can be a 2 c. I think that’s ok.

Jiricek would be great. But I have no idea how we could make that happen.

Does cbj need a goalie?

Minten/niemela/goalie/1st? Type packages. I really don’t see it getting done for that.

O don’t see us trading Cowan or knies. Of Cowan is a winger I might?

With.

Knies/grebs already there plus Mitch/willy long term. I think it makes sense kind of.

 

[All Mod Cons]

Kreider would be a nice upgrade in the top 6, especially if Robertson is moved

But it’s more of a luxury with the Leafs having some youngsters playing well

Trochek would be the best target but I doubt he’s available.

Not sure how I feel about Trouba .. he’s got a hefty cap hit.

Can you imagine Parros if the Leafs had Trouba?

 

[Rocker13]

Marner and Kampf for Kreider and Trouba is pretty close....cap wise
include Timmins and maybe Rangers give a conditional pick

Dude ... I am not even a Marner fan, but seriously??? Don't even think I would do this if Kreider and Trouba were in their prime.

 

[Kiwi]

Fair however 20 year old RHD with his potential don’t come on the market very often and when they do, it’s something every team should look into IMO.

Sillinger would be a fantastic addition/target as well and really fit our needs.

When healthy, a top 9 looking like this is probably one of the best in the league.

Knies - Matthews - Domi
McMann - Tavares - Marner
Pacioretty - Sillinger - Nylander

I'm all for Sillinger but I doubt a 20 year old Jiricek who's skating needs some work and doesn't win board battles (that was from Columbus fans in a tread I was reading) who doesn't want to be in the AHL is going to appeal to Berube

I still think he's a guy you heavily investigate and pursue to see how feasible it is. Regardless of the team's situation, if you can sensibly add a former 6th OA pick two years from his draft year it could be a worthwhile gamble. Especially since the blue line is largely 30+

Personally I don't think the Leafs would part with Columbus would want .. but it's feasible.

The other aspect is the fit - not just on the roster itself but the optics. You have a Leafs teams playing really well through injuries, gelling nicely. How can you fit Jiricek in? There blue line has depth:

Rielly-Tanev
OEL-McCabe
Benoit-Timmins
Hakanpaa-Myers

The only avenue I see is in sheltered bottom pairing minutes (he needs regular playing time but in lower leverage situations at the NHL level to start with) .. who do you take out and rotate? Maybe it's sensible to move Timmins in another deal and put Jiricek there?

It's tough to have a hard pass on, but it is tricky to make it work with the Leafs even if they could afford the price.

We're trying to win, we moved Liljegren and kept Timmins so I'm not sure I see a reason to move Timmins to play a guy with even more question marks than Liljegren had at the time at higher levels

I'm not even sure Jiricek is better than Rifai right now, he needs AHL time but seems to want to fight it

 

[Fogelhund]

We need a top RHD and a c in our pipeline. Lots of wingers and tweeners.

If Cowan can be a 2 c. I think that’s ok.

Jiricek would be great. But I have no idea how we could make that happen.

Does cbj need a goalie?

Minten/niemela/goalie/1st? Type packages. I really don’t see it getting done for that.

O don’t see us trading Cowan or knies. Of Cowan is a winger I might?

With.

Knies/grebs already there plus Mitch/willy long term. I think it makes sense kind of.

Cowan won't be a C.

Jiricek can't even make Columbus... and I appreciate he's young, but no.

 

[Burnie97]

Right now. Leading the division and a lot of regulars coming back soon enough with great goaltending and nice depth on defence... I wouldn't be in any rush for a trade unless a team comes along desperate for some reason and you win the trade by a land slide.

Otherwise wait until closer to the deadline to see where this team is at.

A lot of seasons Leafs have traded away some higher picks etc and Leafs go no where.

Sometimes the best trades are the ones you don't make.

See what some of these young guys can do too.

 

[Martin Skoula]

No idea how you’d make it work but Kreider is how you make sure your PP doesn’t go 1 for 20 again in the playoffs. Also a solution to getting goalied.

 

[Dreakmur]

No idea how you’d make it work but Kreider is how you make sure your PP doesn’t go 1 for 20 again in the playoffs. Also a solution to getting goalied.

I think Knies is actually that solution. They don’t even need a skilled scorer, just someone to dominate the crease and create traffic like Tomas Holmstrom or old Tim Kerr.

 

[Martin Skoula]

I think Knies is actually that solution. They don’t even need a skilled scorer, just someone to dominate the crease and create traffic like Tomas Holmstrom or old Tim Kerr.

Kreider is the best netfront man in the league by a good margin imo, or at least the best one that isn’t more valuable elsewhere on the ice. Would be a perfect mentor for Knies as well like Pronger was for JVR. Running goalies accidentally on purpose doesn’t hurt either.

Either way I can’t see how it would be possible cap and asset wise or if the Rangers would even actually consider moving him.

 

[Voodoo Child]

Jiricek would be sweet but I think other team's would throw together sweeter packages. I'd do Robertson, the 2027 2nd and Dewar.

Kreider would also be sweet but he wouldn't be cheap and there's no real way to make the money work since I doubt the Rags would take the 2026 1st, Jarnkrok, Niemela, Robertson and Benoit. They'd want that 1st, McMann (very similar player), Minten and Timmins which I think makes us worse.

I wouldn't be opposed to trying to get Kakko for a song, though.