11 Jan 2019 03:12:49
Tor gets
Pararin LW

Blue jackets gets
Nylander RW

Tor gets
Gudas D

Philly gets
3rd round pick 2019
Lindgren D

Tor gets
Bouwmeester D

St.Louis gets
Zietsev D
2nd round pick 2019

Toronto's Forward lines
Pararin/Mathews/Kapanen
Hymn/Tavares/Marner
Marleau/Kadri/Brown
Johnsson/Gauthier/Lindholm
Ennis

Defensive lines
Riley/Bouwmeester
Gardner/Gudas
Dermot/Hainsey
Ozhiganov-Holl


1.) 11 Jan 2019
11 Jan 2019 08:51:32
Not sure how I feel about the Panarin trade here. Sure, Panarin is mega-good. Just seems like a huge price trading Nylander for him. The whole pending UFA thing greatly diminishes his value for me. We can’t trade off all those years of Nylander for less than a year rental in Panarin. Most deals for pending UFA’s involve picks/ prospects and low level roster players, not a top line winger signed to multi-year deal. I guess if Panarin scores the game winning goal game 7 double overtime cup final is worth it. But anything short of that would leave us questioning this trade for a very long time.

I think Dubas will stick to the Shanaplan before making a risky move like that. Nylander for Panarin is an act of desperation by a GM whose job is on the line if he doesn’t bring home the bacon. Dubas has lots of time to be smart still. Patience will win in the end.


2.) 11 Jan 2019
11 Jan 2019 12:27:40
Does anybody know what the Shanaplan is? What is going on with Matthews? Does he want out of Toronto? He has been playing like crap? Could he be offer sheeted by Arizona for 1 yr max contract of $16 million and the Leafs can turn around and offer sheet Laine?


3.) 11 Jan 2019
11 Jan 2019 15:30:57
Yeah no, if you think blues are taking zaitsev then your 2019 1st is coming to st. Louis.


4.) 11 Jan 2019
11 Jan 2019 16:28:42
The St. Louis deal is very intriguing, I think if you add a decent prospect to compensate for taking Zaitsev, they take it. Zaitsev may actually be useful for them because they will be able to offer him to Seatle or keep him as a top 4d during their rebuild if Pietrangelo or Parayko is traded.

Obviously I like the idea of trading for Gudas, and if the leafs can pull that trade off I'm all for it. I'm guessing Philly asks for more though.

The Panarin trade I like if Columbus sends back a good prospect or someone like Anderson or Milano, and a conditional pick in case Panarin walks into FA.

These trades also clear $20 mill in cap space next year assuming Panarin, Gardiner, Hainsey, Ennis, and Bouwmeester all walk. If that is the case, the leafs could probably re-sign Gardiner with the money save by putting Horton onto LTIR and letting Ennis walk. While adding that 20$ mill to the cap space they already have. I'm not even including Nylander's and Zaitsev's absent contracts. Then they could use all that money to re-sign Matthews long term, Marner long term, Kappy to a bridge deal, Johnsson to a 4 or 5 year deal and all of their other pending RFA's (Sparks, Ozhiganov, Moore, etc) . Plus they could possibly even lock up Dermott long term or sign a UFA to use up front (if they even need it) .

The lines could look like this (without any UFA signings expcept for Gardiner and Lindholm) :
Johnsson/ Tavares/ Marner
Hyman/ Matthews/ Kapanen
Moore/ Kadri/ Bracco
Marleau/ Lindholm/ Brown
*Gauthier
Gardiner/ Rielly
Dermott/ Gudas
Rosen/ Liljgren
*Ozhigaov, Holl
Anderson
Sparks.


5.) 11 Jan 2019
11 Jan 2019 17:06:48
I mean, how much more does Panarin increase our chances of winning the cup this year? And then he’s gone and so is Nylander. So even if this trade helps us win the cup this year, it greatly reduces our chances of winning again in the future.

I think I read somewhere that if they offer sheet Matthews, then the next year he has to be guaranteed something like 90% of what the signing was. So they would be on the hook for paying Matthews a boat load of money for a long time. I don’t remember exactly how it works, but I know that there is a clause in the CBA that was put in to help prevent poaching.


6.) 11 Jan 2019
11 Jan 2019 19:57:55
As an RFA next year they will have to extend him a qualifying offer. The qualifying offer has to be 10% over his last seasons salary. That means next year his qualifying offer would be over $17M.

When Calgary offer sheeted Ryan O’Reilly, it was 2x$10M, but they didn’t just do it 2 years at $5M each. They made it $3.5M the first year and $6.5M the second year. This made it so that if Colorado matched the offer, which they did, the qualifying offer they would need after that deal was up would be $7.150 mill ($6.5+10%) instead of $5.5mill ($5mill+10%) .