Trades & Free Agency Thread: 2024-2025 Season Edition

[Phion Keneuf]

I would swap Rielly for Faulk 1 for 1.

 

[kb]

St. Louis wanting to move Saad, I would definitely be interested if they could retain any of that contract. Use Robertson + to acquire him. Knies, Saad, McMann and Lorentz is a nice lineup on the left side.

Patches runs you over like he did Jack Hughes.

 

[Martin Skoula]

Yeah I’m not a fan at all to locking up 4th liners to term. Especially at over 1M a season.
I like Lorentz and think he has been great for us but it’s just bad asset management

I think we’ve just gotten so used to having a shitty fourth line that we drool over guys like Acciari and Lorentz when they’re here but teams like Florida cycle through them like they’re nothing and let them go the moment they stop costing minimum wage.

There will be other quality minimum wage and PTO guys every season, locking into the ones that had a good season or two is bad business.

 

[horner]

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.

Minten Cowen Greb maybe even Danford .
Mathews has not been himself this season
Our goaltenders need to show that they can stay healthy.
Domi is looking like shit to the point that I would trade him.

One player I would trade for is Tanevs brother