Holl and Mrazek yes, Kerfoot no. I think unless they can find a player like Kerfoot who can PK and play up and down the lineup for less then 3m then they will be keeping him around. He’s an effective Swiss army knfie. Not sure why he gets a bad rap around here.
Leafs amateur scouts are going to have to prove they're better than other teams, however with one hand tied behind their backs essentially.
.. However its pretty tough for Leafs amateur scouts to make successful selections if you don't have the picks to make them with, because NO NHL team will make less sections then our Leafs in 2021& 2022 combined. 
Don't you think it takes patience to develop players? Don't you think Robertson, Niemela, Knies are trending in the right direction? How are Sandin and Durzi not great picks.
Cogliano is a warrior and a hometown boy. Would love to have him. Just hope he has a few miles left on him at 35.
WHY DO YOU PEOPLE KEEP TRYING TO MOVE NYLANDER?I think his shopping list fairly aparent:
list of priorities
1. goaltending (trade or UFA)
2. RFAs (Kase, Engvall, Sandin)
3. forwards (UFA or trade)
4. defense (possibly move out Holl/Sandin/Muzzin)
If he can move 1 or 2 bodies out (Holl, Kerfoot, *Nylander, *Tavares, Muzzin, etc.) he might have more flexibility to balance the team.
*unlikely Nylander/Tavares moves. KD would be making his boldest moves to date if he moved either player.
What do you think will happen with the little cap space Dubas has?
Leafs amateur scouts are going to have to prove their better than other teams, however with one hand tied behind their backs essentially.
Leafs only made 3 picks total in 2021 (2nd, 5th and 6th) and only have 3 picks in 2022 1st, 3rd ( recaptured by trading Dermott) and 7th.
The NHL hands each NHL team 7 free picks each year 1 per round, so that makes a minimum selection for amateur scouts of 2 seasons = 14 selections to hit upon.
Traded away picks = zero success rate to hit on so that = 8 lost of 14 potential made = 57% automatic busts.
Leafs are now left with only 6 possible surviving picks of 14 = 43% max possible. [The NHL overall % on a strong draft = 2 successful of 7 picks, which usually includes our 1st rounder as one].
While I agree 100% with your notion of restocking the Leafs with youth on ELC contract's and nobody says "play the kids" more than I do
That's debatable, and would say more about Liljegren than Holl. What's not debatable is that Holl was at least better than Lyubushkin, and deserved to be in the lineup.
While trading him due to our depth in the position may be a good idea, he is not overpaid in the slightest.
Yes, it was.
Andersen's numbers were significantly better this year because Andersen played significantly better this year. Not because he was on Carolina. For the record, Carolina allowed the 13th least high danger chances per 60 this year. They were middle-of-the-pack in that regard. Toronto allowed the 10th least (which is also where we ranked over the last 2 years Andersen was here). Carolina during the years Mrazek was there was 21st. Carolina is decent at limiting shots, but the shots they do allow are above average quality.
That and because I wouldn’t want to negotiate with him UFA. Also, for a core that can’t progress, we don’t need their individual salaries to keep rising. We are now paying Rielly 2 million more and haven’t made it anywhere.
But we have a GM who is willing to "stake his career" on his core. 4 years in a row out in the first round (6 in total), and he still won't budge. Not enough evidence that his cap allocation just isn't working it seems.
In one single post you said "It simply takes years to evaluate amateur drafts" and "Robertson (21), Niemela (20), Knies (19) are all legit prospects who were taken between the 53rd and 64th picks"
We're not the most elite team in every aspect of hockey, but we are an excellent team, much like the team we unfortunately faced in the 1st round. I probably wouldn't classify every single one of our defensemen last year as "great", but we did have 8 NHL defensemen, and that was part of why we ended up as the 3rd best defensive team last year. No matter how good your offense and defense are though, its hard to win a President's trophy with the 8th worst goaltending in the league.
They don't.
That's not even true. Mrazek had good seasons in Detroit. And he only played 20 games in Toronto and 17 games in Philly. In fact, the only season of real note for Mrazek in Carolina is 12 games in 2021, so not sure what you're even talking about.
Except again, that's not true.
We weren't interested in trading him going into the deadline. We had uncertainty in the health of Muzzin and Sandin, we had uncertainty in how two new additions (Giordano, Lyubushkin) would fit in, we were lining up for a playoff run and didn't need his cap space, and Holl was playing well with us. Holl played 5 of the 7 playoff games.
No, we didn't win the President's trophy, but I'm not sure why that's relevant. Only 1 team does. I'm also not sure why you're talking about trophies in reply to me talking about team quality.
