Trades & Free Agency Thread: 2024-2025 - Trade Deadline Approaches

[ULF_55]

After marner plays with McDavid for a couple of weeks ...

RNH and Bouchard
for
marner and Ekman-Larsson

 

[thusk]

They call him a C but he isn't a great FO guy and he is a very distant 4th on the Sharks for draws taken. You are thinking as a winger and occasional C? He does hit a ton and pk.

48,2% is not that bad on FO, its actually more than Domi, holmberg or Minten

And hes RH, not a bad thing to have one RHC in your line up

Whoever take Gourde may be throwing away the assets he costs up front.

He's old and broken.

A lot of player still help in early 30... marchessault won conn smythe 2 years ago at 32... and at 33 Gourde still have thing to bring at the good price

He still play with grit, he still a player who having ability to raise his game when its matter, hes a great leader by exemple who will bring intensity when thing goes wrong..He can adapt his game basically to every system because hes making thing simple. If his actual season just make his value goes down, would just be a good thing in my mind because

 

[ULF_55]

He still play with grit, he still a player who having ability to raise his game when its matter, hes a great leader by exemple who will bring intensity when thing goes wrong..He can adapt his game basically to every system because hes making thing simple. If his actual season just make his value goes down, would just be a good thing in my mind because

He may not even be healthy before March 7th.

Would you give up a 2nd. for a 33 year old player who is on LTIR?

Would you do the Foligno trade again?

 

[thusk]

He may not even be healthy before March 7th.

Would you give up a 2nd. for a 33 year old player who is on LTIR?

Would you do the Foligno trade again?

Leafs having a much better team than when they traded for foligno

They don't need a 3rd liner and trying to make it a top 6 player, they need a 3rd liner player to use in a 3rd line.

And like i said, all depend of the price. For a 1st pick and 2 4th ( like foligno trade) no thanks, they are other option available

for a late 2nd or a robertson+ or whatever it can be interesting

PS ROR was also injured before TDL to foot and get injured again latet with leafs to a broke finger and still been pretty good for leafs and it was even a worst case...

 

[Fogelhund]

Leafs having a much better team than when they traded for foligno

They don't need a 3rd liner and trying to make it a top 6 player, they need a 3rd liner player to use in a 3rd line.

And like i said, all depend of the price. For a 1st pick and 2 4th ( like foligno trade) no thanks, they are other option available

for a late 2nd or a robertson+ or whatever it can be interesting

PS ROR was also injured before TDL to foot and get injured again latet with leafs to a broke finger and still been pretty good for leafs and it was even a worst case...

It's pretty simple, get a healthy player, not one coming off surgery with question marks.

 

[thusk]

It's pretty simple, get a healthy player, not one coming off surgery with question marks.

Every player coming with questions mark, we don't know if they gonna be able to adapt in a new system quickly and well enough to make an real impact, no guarantee they will stay healthy and deliver all expectations coming with the trade.

The perfect trade without any risk doesn't exist

 

[Fogelhund]

Every player coming with questions mark, we don't know if they gonna be able to adapt in a new system quickly and well enough to make an real impact, no guarantee they will stay healthy and deliver all expectations coming with the trade.

The perfect trade without any risk doesn't exist

Sure... but there is a difference between fitting in, and coming off surgery... a big difference... you'd think you would understand that.

 

[thusk]

Sure... but there is a difference between fitting in, and coming off surgery... a big difference... you'd think you would understand that.

Always depend of what kind of injury it is... Gourde, its a sport hernia, its not a big deal and a pretty basic injury for an athlete...

If it would be back injury by exemple or those kind of injury, it would not be the same because those injuries are pretty concerning. But for a sport hernia... you recover pretty well from this kind of injury with risk of recidivism pretty low, so for me its not really a big deal.

 

[Taylor Halls Teeth]

He may not even be healthy before March 7th.

Would you give up a 2nd. for a 33 year old player who is on LTIR?

Would you do the Foligno trade again?

Can they even make a trade for an LTIR player? I think his trade has to come at the 11th hour if he is even off LTIR in time. Nobody will pay a 2nd for an untested IR return. Any deal for Gourde would have to be last minute and pennies on the dollar.3rd or even 4th round pick.

 

[chamchibap]

Instead of Laughton, I wonder what it would take to get Cates…really strong defensively, playing C this year, fairly young … 1st + Minten?