Proposal: William Nylander for Alexis Lafrenière & Alex Georgiev

[Do Make Say Think]

Maybe after the Leafs choke in the first round again and Dubas gets fired.

Maybe.

 

[Machinehead]

Lafreniere is fine. He just needs the Rangers to use him a little better.

 

[Lays]

Rumor: - Rangers willing to trade Lafreniere for a young elite talent with team control

They'll never get the value they want for him because no one will pay for a guy that's shown nothing at the NHL level. So, it'll never happen, but I'm sure the Rags would love to deal him for an upgrade. Lafrenière for Kotkaniemi ? About the same value and the same production.

hfboards.mandatory.com

Buddy you’re hours behind. Multiple sources have said that couldn’t be anymore false lol

 

[Amadeus]

Leafs may get some cap relief due to this move as well for the near term.

 

[Guitpik]

Byfield, Turcotte, and Walker for Lafreniere, Lindgren, and a 4th.

Hell no from a Kings fan.

 

[Grand Admiral Thrawn]

Drouin for Laffer... no wait don't really want Laffer.

 

[Hockey 4 Life]

It would be a massive gamble for the leafs. Don't think they consider it without a significant add.

 

[peconcan]

Add Kakko then Dubas answers the phone

 

[Killer Orcas]

For once a proposal that's pretty gross for Leafs actually. If Lafreniere wasn't a first over all pick he'd probably be in the AHL. Georgiev can't stop a beach ball this year and well Nylander is almost PPG player this year. Not even close to fair value.

 

[34]

Toronto gets hosed here. Toronto needs Nylander for their 4 play off games coming up. He has been the best Leaf in the playoffs the last few seasons.

 

[namttebih]

I was thinking Laf + picks for Willy earlier today.

Clears up $6M and own picks for d/goalie trade. LW is our weakest F position too.

 

[namttebih]

Leafs may get some cap relief due to this move as well for the near term.

OUT: Nylander, Mrazek, Dermott, Holl
IN: Laf, Varlamov, Mayfield, Gio

Use picks and cap relief from NYR trade for the other two trades

 

[Kimota]

lmao take your rose-tinted glasses off homer. This is awful for the Leafs.

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Doesn't mean the Rangers will trade Lafreniere. It would be stupid of them to trade him so early.

 

[WesMcCauley]

Laf is improving, I don't wanna trade him at all right now unless something really special comes back. When he plays a little higher in the lineup you can see the talent right away but when he doesn't get the ice-time and gets stuck in the bottom 6 he becomes invisible pretty fast...

 

[SniperOnTheWing]

Lafreniere is fine. He just needs the Rangers to use him a little better.

Use him better? They’ve been force feeding him a top line spot for weeks now. Could use more PP time I suppose but you can’t really justify him on PP1 with the options NY has right now.

 

[Hockey 4 Life]

Laf is improving, I don't wanna trade him at all right now unless something really special comes back. When he plays a little higher in the lineup you can see the talent right away but when he doesn't get the ice-time and gets stuck in the bottom 6 he becomes invisible pretty fast...

Then why not play him higher up if he's going to produce really well. The way he's playing currently not team is giving up a 25 year old ppg winger for him.

 

[Edgelord]

Then why not play him higher up if he's going to produce really well. The way he's playing currently not team is giving up a 25 year old ppg winger for him.

Man I feel bad for Dubas right now, stand pat, go out 1st round=fired
spend the crazy prices and don't win a cup=fired

 

[ijuka]

Lafreniere is fine. He just needs the Rangers to use him a little better.

How exactly? He's getting top line minutes. And is a clear weak link for the line.

It's not NYR's role to give him the minutes he deserves. He's supposed to earn them with his own play. Currently he should deserve to be nowhere near top line. It's ridiculous to say Rangers need to use him better.

Man I feel bad for Dubas right now, stand pat, go out 1st round=fired
spend the crazy prices and don't win a cup=fired

Try vs give up. While Dubas waits around for the perfect moment, his core players will become UFAs.

 

[Hockey 4 Life]

Man I feel bad for Dubas right now, stand pat, go out 1st round=fired
spend the crazy prices and don't win a cup=fired

Hes had 4 years and inherited a really solid young team from lou. He deserves to be fired, he should have been canned last offseason.

 

[Machinehead]

Use him better? They’ve been force feeding him a top line spot for weeks now. Could use more PP time I suppose but you can’t really justify him on PP1 with the options NY has right now.

How exactly? He's getting top line minutes. And is a clear weak link for the line.

It's not NYR's role to give him the minutes he deserves. He's supposed to earn them with his own play. Currently he should deserve to be nowhere near top line. It's ridiculous to say Rangers need to use him better.

He needs to be on the first PP unit. The Rangers barely use their second unit and it sucks. It regularly features Barclay Goodrow and Dryden Hunt.

Lafreniere is a significantly better option than Strome. Strome is a good 5v5 player but he sucks f***ing wind on the powerplay.

 

[Machinehead]

The Rangers have the #2 powerplay in the league and their top unit has a combined 115 points.

Ryan Strome has 11.

It's hard to be that bad.

 

[HogtownSabresfan]

Brutal for Leafs...

No joke. And I hate the Leafs. I think poster meant Alex Nylander.

 

[WesMcCauley]

Then why not play him higher up if he's going to produce really well. The way he's playing currently not team is giving up a 25 year old ppg winger for him.

They should and he has been getting some time there lately...
His PP minutes are a joke too, that second unit barely plays and the players on that unit aren't exactly very good...

 

[Leafs87]

A 20 year old player that leads a playoff team in even strength goals since he was acquired sucks?

This seems more like a Rangers issue than a Laf praise. Also feel like this stat is wrong tbh, just too lazy to look this up right now.

As for Nylander for these two no way

 

[Garbageyuk]

115 GP 40 Points. Don’t think because someone was taking first overall they can’t bust. Think Patrick Stefan and Alexander Daigle. If you are not even a tad concern you’re living in denial.

Daigle wasn’t a bust, just a big disappointment. At this point, NYR would honestly be lucky if Laf ever scored as much as Daigle did.