According to Friedman, there is a report that the Maple Leafs have interest in players like Ryan Reaves, Miles Wood, and Austin Watson. The organization is looking to add physicality and toughness to their bottom-six forward group. While Reaves, Wood, or Watson contribute little in terms of offensive production, their physical play brings a different element to the game and addresses the perceived lack of intensity in the playoffs.
How different is Reaves from Simmonds? 36 years old and can't play well enough to be on the ice when the scorers are out. They need to look at players closer to their prime.
Ryan Reaves is not preventing anyone from doing anything to our players. Especially in the playoffs where he'll be eating popcorn in the press box.
Podcast interview of a former NHL executive who is now with the NHL network, I think his name is Futa?
We need to add this to our top 6, nevermind the bottom six.
Tavares is 32 and turning 33 in Sept and he makes a similar $11 mil salary as EK for the next 2 seasons and he is a PPG center at best at this stage.
Would I take a 33 year old Dman making $11 mil and putting up > 100 points instead of an aging slowing down centre making the same. Hell Yeah I would.
If the Leafs would be interested in a Karlsson then one of their $11 mil players would have to be moving out. However I don't believe Karlsson would all that interested in Toronto to waive his NTC for because of his former ties to Ottawa and dislike that happened in the past with the battle of Ontario.
I suspect Treliving is going to look for volume moves on Defense like recently bought out Oliver Ekman-Larsson from his days in Arizona, or Noah Hanifin from Flames. etc.
