Leafs Trade Rumors

07 Mar 2026 16:18:09
While the Leafs did pick up some assets, a bit underwhelming overall. Thought they got higher value on Roy, but slightly lower value on McMann.

That being said, off-season and draft day is what to look forward to.

Draft day trade

To SEA: D - M. Rielly

To TOR: 2026 1st + 2027 3rd

Looked at both the Carlson and Faulk trades, both went for a 1st and 3rd. So comparable.

Re-sign Stecker

Leafs D for next year

OEL Carlo
McCabe Tanev
Benoit Stecker
Myers

With the 1st draft best available Defenseman, preferably LHD.

07 Mar 2026 16:15:40
Don't ever put Reilly and Carlson in the same conversation. Carlson is in a different league.

07 Mar 2026 16:31:30
Reilly is the worst defenseman on a non playoff team. I would be happy for a 5th round pick and save his cap space. The Leafs cannot win with Reilly playing more than 00.0 minutes.

07 Mar 2026 15:23:58
I am not trying to defend Tre.
But honestly guys, take a look at the returns for players this year. Weegar didn't even get a 1st in the return. Panarin didn't. There were only about a handful of 1sts handed out and many are conditional.
Like it or not, the returns the Leafs got were on par to the higher end of returns for comparables.

07 Mar 2026 14:35:50
Mr. Positivity. Defend him all you want. He is the reason we’re in this. And it started from getting Maccelli last off season. If you couldn’t get a 1st for Bobby then why not resign him?? Missing that guy is gonna be huge next year. This team is slow and heartless. He built that. Where is the toughness? He promised a change in identity but we didn’t know it was gonna mean softer and slower.

Let’s call this what it is RLF, he is good at making team friendly financial deals for sure. But he is not a hockey mind. He doesn’t know what it takes to make a team well rounded and whole. He is like my wife, if it’s a good enough sale he buys it, doesn’t matter what the product looks like. Berube and Tre need to go as fast as possible. 0% creativity in any of his moves.

07 Mar 2026 15:13:21
Roy did right, got a 1st for him. No excuse why we didn’t for McMann — absolutely ridiculous. Why not sign him at that point and trade him later. Honestly, can’t remember a GM who’s set a team back more in my lifetime and I was born in the 70’s.

07 Mar 2026 16:27:36
@RLF,
I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to disagree.

Roy deal was great (even better than what he paid for Laughton last year).

OEL strategy was perfectly fine. Tre sets a price and sticks to it till the end of TDL day. And this works because OEL has term, so not desperate to trade him.

McMann & Laughton (both UFA's).
Again, perfectly fine to set a price for them. But, you don't wait till end of TDL. He became desperate at that point and took whatever he could get ffs.
He had to set his own deadline way before 3 p.m., especially seeing the way the day was going.

Set a 1 p.m. or 2 p.m. deadline and take your best offer at that time.
McCarron (a pure 4th liner) gets a 2nd. You trying to tell me Laughton couldn't have gotten a 2nd minimum (without condition)?

IMO Tre backed himself into a corner and got what he could at that point.
He traded what he had to trade, which I will give him some credit for (but he definitely lost out on possibly another 2nd or even 3rd for McMann and a definite 2nd with I believe a 4th for Laughton).
Unfortunately, the retention angle for contracts just wasn't out there this year, even though we had ample cap space.

07 Mar 2026 16:32:09
Clarky. I started with "not defending" him, so saying "defend him all you want" and taking your little shots is ridiculous.
I don't care if you blame Tre 100%.
My point was strictly on the returns he got. You say McMann was easily worth a 1st. Then Tre would have taken that offer. Obviously no one was willing to give one.

07 Mar 2026 16:49:28
People might disagree with me and I am sure some will and some won't. Considering Weegar had control over where he would be traded, I think the Flames did extremely well with the trade. Castagna is playing quite well for Cornell and has good size.

Maatta was a good strategic pick up as he has had great career analytics as a true defensefive defenseman and wirth the Flames have Parekh looking to play fulltime with the team I can see Maatta being his partner and Parekh forgets what "Defense" part of Defenceman man means the majority of the time.

Now.... the 3 2nd round picks they got were awesome especially the Rangers 2nd that Utah possessed. If the season ended today that is the number 35 overall pick and the Flames also have the number 34 pick that is like having 2 late first rounders almost. So with the 3 2nd round picks and already having their own along with 2 1st round picks. The Flames now have 8 of the first 66 picks in this years draft. To put into perspective. Right now our first pick is #75 right now.

07 Mar 2026 17:35:10
The problem with the returns are they were all next year. My issue really was Laughton; he’s worth more than a 3rd, plus he hung onto guy in this blueline. Why Kampf got a pick, Jarnkrok couldn’t fetch that. When it comes down to it, Tre should of made the moves at Christmas, not at 255.

07 Mar 2026 01:12:24
Well, that was a disappointing (depressing) trade deadline.
A late 2027 - 1st (Roy)
A 2027 - 2nd (McMann)
A 2026 - 3rd (Laughton)

Hopefully Treliving won’t survive this mess he has created.
Berube isn't a youth/development coach and must be replaced.
I think Leafs fans are in for a long rebuild.
Hopefully MLSE pick the right man for the job this time.

07 Mar 2026 10:31:17
So my buddy and his kid who played in the show said they were watching the scenario over the last few weeks and he was talking to his agent getting his opinion on how things went. Interesting take on it actually.

He said Colorado pretty much had a deal in place with Calgary with Kadri but it was a constant back and forth on what the pieces would be, so in case it fell apart they jumped on Nicolas Roy to ensure they had a hard forechecker and good faceoff guy for the stretch and the playoffs. Then if the Kadri deal came together they were set down the middle even if they had an injury.

The McMann one is the frustrating one. His feedback from his group of sources was the Leafs had 4 to 5 offers of a 1st round pick right after the Calgary, Edmonton games when McMann had a goal in each. Then the next day was Roster Freeze. Apparently Leafs wanted a prospect as well. They decided to hold out, and then McMann went 4 games after the Olympics with no goals and the offers by the third game for a 1st were off the table.

McMann was not dressed for the last 2 games for fear of injury leading to trade deadline, that was one part of the reasoning the other fear was if he had gone another 2 games with no goals he may not have even been in play for a trade at all.

Not as much insight into the Laughton deal but word was they had an early offer of a 2nd and a 3rd but held off and trying for a better deal. They waited too long and got backed into a corner. Hence all we got was a 3rd rounder.

So in essence the only good deal we really got was the Roy one and that was because Colorado really wanted a backup plan for Kadri.

Colorado is going to be a rough team to match up against down the middle. (Like they weren't already lol) Now it's McKinnon, Kadri, Nelson (Could flip those either way as number 2 or number 3 center) Roy as the 4th line center, with either Parker Kelly or Jack Drury drawing in on the 4th line as a winger in case another centre goes down with injury.

07 Mar 2026 14:21:00
You have conveniently also left out the 5th for Roy, the 4th for McMann and that if LA makes the playoffs Laughton pick becomes a 2nd.
I'm not saying this was a great trade deadline by any means.

Honestly, what did we expect for Laughton? Berube played him as a 4th liner. A 2nd or 3rd for a 4th liner is a decent return.

McMann, sure I would have loved a 1st. But there wasn't alot of 1sts handed out in general.
Roy - 2027, Chicago only got one (2027) because they took on Mangi, otherwise they weren't getting one for both Dickinson and Dach.

Wash got a 1st and 3rd for Carlson, one of the best D in the League. Blues got a conditional 1st for Schenn and a 1st for Faulk. Flames got a conditional 1st for Kadri in 28.
That's it. And people think McMann should easily have been a 1st+? So what Carlson got? Not likely.
The 1st and 5th for Roy was a great return based on what other players returns were. Even Panarin, an over point a game player, didn't get a 1st.
Can't only look at what the Leafs got as returns, have to look at the whole picture.

07 Mar 2026 14:42:15
What you mean Panarin didn’t get a 1st? They got Greentree, which is even better then a 1st.

07 Mar 2026 16:10:55
Panarin is over a point per game player. Last year even, that would have been Greentree and a 1st. Weegar easily would have been a 1st+

07 Mar 2026 16:59:34
Didn't conveniently leave them out as that was not the gist of the post. Was just relaying what I was given for background on how the getting greedy and not pulling the trigger took away from the initial offerings. Tre does not read the market that well. It's how he funbled the Huberdeau signing. He was so desperate to show the world Calgary could keep and sign players after losing Tkachuk and Gaudreau.

He offered $2 million more than what Huberdeau's camp was hoping to get. I have yet to hear of a agent that says...." No you guys are offering to much" lol

Anyway deadline is done. Let's move on to our Spring Meetings of the Leaf GM's at large and find a way to fix this mess.

06 Mar 2026 12:59:42
After last night's game against New York it’s clear we are several players away from a legitimate playoff run. Auston has been good for us but it’s time to let him go to start the rebuild. Auston looks like he wants out. He is the only player that we can trade that can keep this rebuild under 5 years.

So I’m proposing the following:

To St. Louis
Auston Matthews
3rd round pick 2027

To Toronto
Robert Thomas
Logan Mailloux
2026 First Round Pick (Top 5 protected)

Keep Nylander and Knies. Try to resign Laughton. Give the “C” back to Tavares.
Trade Reilly in the offseason for a D prospect and pick.

06 Mar 2026 12:07:20
Trade Nylander before anyone else. If you want a change in identity, that’s where you start.

06 Mar 2026 12:31:00
Trade both Nylander and Mathews!
One to LA, the other to Utah.
Players coming back…
Byfield, Clarke, Guenther, Crouse, Iginla
1st, 2nd plus.
Then flip the picks and one or two players to St Louis for Thomas!
We will be competitive next year!

06 Mar 2026 13:11:56
Matthews alone gets more.

05 Mar 2026 23:56:28
How about Stolaz, Domi, McMann and our new 1st for
Thomas.

05 Mar 2026 23:42:03
I’m pretty sure St. Louis will want a center coming back in any trade they make that includes Thomas.

06 Mar 2026 09:15:10
How bout we don't need Thomas?

06 Mar 2026 10:22:34
Suddenly Robert Thomas is a superstar? He’s a good player, not a great player. Deadline hype. Having said that, St. Louis has zero interest in that offer. Domi has zero value at best. McMann is UFA. They have Binnington and not taking Stolarz.