Leafs rumours 3

09 May 2026 13:58:08
Toronto —> Vancouver
1st overall pick
COL 2027 or 2028 1st rd pick
LA 2026 2nd rd pick
Morgan Reilly
Nick Robertson
Domi

Vancouver —> Toronto
Pick #3
MIN 2026 1st rd pick
Elias Pettersson @ 50% retained
Brock Boeser @ 50% retained
Filip Hronek @ 50% retained

Draft Veorhoff or Reid @3

Sign Tuch free agency (10.25$)
Sign Bobby mcmann or mason marchment free agency (5$)
Sign Ferraro free agency ($3.5M)

Knies($7.75M) Matthews($13.25M) Boeser $3.625M)
Mcmann($5M) Pettersson($5.8M) Nylander($11.5M)
Cowan ($873k) Tavares($4.38M) Tuch($10M)
Lorentz($1.35M) Groulx($812.5K) Joshua($3.25M)


Hronek($3.625M) Veorheoff/Reid($999K)
McCabe($4.51M) Tanev($4.5M)
OEL($3.5M) Carlo($4.1M)
Benoit($1.35M) Ferrarro($3.5M)


Woll ($3.66M)
Hildeby ($842K)
Stolarz ($3.75M)

Cap Hit: $101,926,500M

2027 salary cap projection ($114M)

09 May 2026 13:05:21
Pettersson?
😵‍💫
No thanks.

09 May 2026 13:22:15
That’s a better team than we have that’s for sure and a lot of cap and crap gone.

09 May 2026 13:37:51
Cap is 104

09 May 2026 14:11:55
So ... I am sitting hypotheically in the GM's chair in Edmonton when this comes in on my e-mail as a proposal. I look at it and go "Yeah I did the math and I don't see any problem having $13,000,000 of retained salary cap for 6 years, how could that ever come back to haunt us? Oh and they want us to take Reilly's $7,500,000 too so $20,500,000 for one defensemen and 3 guys not playing for us and then when our first round picks do their First RFA contracts, I will find a way to get the league to allow us to only play with a 15 man roster instead of 23 and then we can make the cap work.

Yeah, yeah the finacial numbers work. Oh wait..... I just remembered I failed remedial math 4 times. Hm I better get someone else to look at these numbers" lol.

09 May 2026 14:40:20
Those are some valid points Sufferingsince1967 - you could move Reilly to the Sharks for a third and retain the pick from LA while letting Vancouver keep Minny’s first making the trade as follows

TOR —> VAN
1st overall
COL 2027 1st
Robertson

VAN —> TOR
3rd overall
Pettersson @ 50% retained
Boeser @ 50% retained
Hronek @ 50% retained

This gives VAN pick #1 and a widely considered generational talent in McKenna, an extra 2nd this year, an extra 1st next year, an a proven 15 goal scorer with limited ice time who will be cheap and is very young.



Thoughts?

09 May 2026 14:44:37
Vancouver's office, not Edmonton lol.

09 May 2026 14:51:03
That salary retainment though is like a hangman's noose. All you have to do is look at Buffalo's retainment with one player, Jeff Skinner, and how it might handcuff them enough that they can't get Tuch, Benson and Krebs all done. They would still be tight anyway but that retainment means they have to let someone of value go and if not one of those 3 someone else.

I get what you are looking at, but I am not a big fan of ratainment. Obviously if the other team is retaining I am good with it lol. But when you do it it comes back on you especially with all three of those Vancouver players being under contract until the end of the 2031-2032 season.

09 May 2026 17:27:51
That’s a valid point - I think there’d be a willingness to retain on Pettersson and one of the other two (preferably Hronek) with pick #3 for a franchise player at #1 overall, a disgruntled prospect in Robertson and an additional 2nd or COL 1st in 2027. Pettersson gives us that #2C for the future, Hronek gives us a puck moving RHD, and we still pick third where we get one of Stenberg, Reid or Veorhoff

Subsequently ship Reilly to the Sharks for whatever they’re willing to play and we get Tuch in FA and we’ve revamped our forward core for the future while effectively rebuilding our blue line.

09 May 2026 20:15:33
Why not do what I suggested a week ago, Reilly and Robertson for Pettersson?

09 May 2026 21:26:54
Sorry not going into that arena debate again. Not changing my mind.

09 May 2026 13:54:21
Considering this team must stay competitive or else Phil/Bos are going to get some great picks, here is a proposal.
1. Trade Matthews and Carlo to LA for Byfield, Clarke, 2026 1st, 2028 1st, and 2029 first.
2. Trade Robertson to San Jose for Dellandrea
3. Trade Nylander to Anaheim for Sennecke +
4. Trade Reilly and 2026 1st to Vancouver for 2026 1st(3rd overall) and Buium Draft Molholtra
5. Trade Stolarz and prospect to ew Jersey for Hamilton

New lines
Knies. Byfield. Sennecke
Cowan. Tavares. ?
Domi. Molholtra. Dellandrea
Lorentz. Laughton. ?

Buium. Hamilton
McCabe. Clarke
OEL/Benoit. Tanev/Danford

Will
Hildeby

Sign Kozmenko or similar for 2nd line
Sign C. Brown or similar for 4th line
Sign veteran 3rd string goalie who can clear waivers

09 May 2026 13:14:00
3 firsts and Byfield and Clarke from LA?
I think that is way too much for Matthews.
Carlo is just a throw in. He has little value.
Maybe even view as a cap dump


Ducks trade..+? What’s the plus
Hard to comment on a not completed proposal

Robertson trade is sideways move.
A trade for the sake of a trade

Any deal involving Rielly is a good one

Devils trade …prospect? Who is the prospect? I looked for that name on their roster and couldn’t locate him.

09 May 2026 13:23:36
You’d have to protect or lose the 2028 pick.

09 May 2026 14:14:45
@ Golftown... No kidding on the L. A deal... Do you want to call or should I to approve that deal and you and I will even help Matthews pack lol lol.

09 May 2026 14:58:50
@LeafsGM Why would we lose the pick?

09 May 2026 15:05:19
@golftown The Prospect is that new walk-n signing they did from the University of Northern South Dakota. His name is Bear Skinner, distant cousin of Jeff Skinner.

09 May 2026 20:19:42
Because correct me if I’m wrong but the Flyers or Bruins have the choice of our top pick and I believe ours will be lower than LA's pick.

09 May 2026 21:47:45
It has to be your actual team owned pick or a pick you have already acquired before you made trade. Any picks acquired after the trade has been done are not put into play. So we do not have our own 2 picks for 2027 and 2028 no matter what.

Unless the unthinkable happened and we traded with Boston and/or Philadelphia a player or players and got our own picks back. But I ain't holding my breath on that.

08 May 2026 15:28:51
Something that I’ve been thinking about is offer sheets. Leafs own their own 2nd next year so in theory the Leafs could offer sheet someone @2.3-4.6 million. Teams like Anaheim could be a target for this.

What’s your thoughts?

08 May 2026 15:21:33
Who are your targets you're thinking about?

08 May 2026 16:14:33
Anaheim has a lot of cap space, and don't have to pay their younger guys yet.

08 May 2026 17:18:01
I like the thought of offer sheets but you have
to target teams that are hard up against the cap. Remember 2 years ago Edmonton was up against it (as they are again). Bowman in all his wisdom decided in August he wanted to keep $10 million for possible cap space for the trade deadline. So he let St. Louis offer sheet Both Dylan Holloway and Philip Broberg and got a 2nd and a 3rd round pick in total compensation. People say it ranks as one of the worst moves in Edmonton's history. Holloway is now close to a point a game player who is very physical as well.

Broberg is ranked in the 98 percentile for overall speed in the NHL and is imbedded in the top 10 fastest dmen but also crazy Goid defensively. Both are still only going to be 25 heading into this season. Funny the 2 exact kind of players Edmonton was trying to get the last 2 years. They already had. The lost them both on very affordable offer sheets. Broberg 4.58 Holloway 2.29. So yeah you can get a deal by lower base offer sheets.

08 May 2026 22:29:04
I think it all depends on what happens with Matthews, Nylander and probably Rielly. If any/all are moved and solid players/prospects are the return, there may be no need to give up a pick in order to get a young player.

08 May 2026 23:43:54
Utah is a bit tight on the cap and Beaudoin will probably crack the lineup so might be worth a 2nd round pick for Barrett Hayton. He would be a good third line pickup.

09 May 2026 04:30:12
We could take a run at Mavrik Bourque and offer right to the max that we could do with our 2nd round compensation. Dallas would have a extremely tough time to match if they sign Robertson. That brings us a very good young centreman.

08 May 2026 09:13:04
Sharks
1st overall pick 2026

Leafs
2nd overall 2026
Musty

08 May 2026 21:52:33
Sharks have zero interest in that. They’d be quite content picking second or moving that pick for an established D.

09 May 2026 00:10:16
Thank you Sharks GM
Uh I mean ckps1976.

09 May 2026 11:37:04
Sharks don’t need another forward, they need D. They can get the best one available at pick 2. Or they could move the pick to get an established NHL D.

08 May 2026 09:11:17
Hawks
1st overall 2026

Leafs
4th overall 2026
Hawks own 1st rd pick 2027 unprotected

09 May 2026 02:12:42
To Chicago: 2026 1st overall.

To Leafs: 2026 4th overall, Frondell

09 May 2026 12:30:03
You are diabolical waterbuffalo49. Frondell is going to be crazy good player. I don’t think Chicago would do that. I would love if they did though. If they did I would take it one step further. I would then trade Knies to San Jose for Misa and flip our position from 4th pick to 2nd.

My thinking is we pick Frondell’s national teammate Stenberg.

With Frondell gone Chicago would pick McKenna. It won’t happen but what a young line that would be. Frondell Misa Stenberg.


What I can see though is Chicago throwing a package of some nature at us not involving Frondell so they can draft Stenberg and uniting him with Frondell.

09 May 2026 12:48:01
@Golftown. I like your thinking but Chicago might have to sweeten it a bit more. I think that 1st pick in 2027 could be a late one. With Chicago’s good young defensemen with another year under their belts and then adding, say, Stenberg (if they got our pick), then that pitiful offence with he and Frondell and possibly Tuch (rumblings have them) ready to back the brinks truck to his door that team would easily make the jump into the playoffs.

08 May 2026 09:08:15
Canucks
1st overall 2026

Leafs
3rd overall 2026
Cootes

08 May 2026 01:55:19
Hawks
Knies
Rielly

Leafs
4th overall draft Malhotra
Vanacker

LA Kings
Matthews
Carlo

Leafs
Byfield
Clarke

Sharks
Nylander
Benoit

Leafs
2nd overall
Draft Stenberg
Musty


1st overall pick draft McKenna

Out
Knies Rielly Matthews Carlo Nylander Benoit
In
Malhotra Vanacker Byfield Clarke McKenna Musty
Stenberg

Need some d
Sign UFA
Trouba
Andersson
Soucy

08 May 2026 02:19:10
Really like these deals. Stay competitive, get younger.

09 May 2026 02:14:07
A rebuild is exactly what Leafs need.
Time to close the door on the Core 4.

07 May 2026 23:58:23
So im thnking we can make a few good moves this off season.


So my first trade i proposed a while ago

tor: Carlo, Robertson
ana: Mctavish, Procyzsyn

my second isnt well liked but:

tor: Knies, Bo Groulx, Topi Neimela,

chi: #4 OVA, Sam Rinzel

this move brings in a d prospect and we use the 4ova pick to draft Reid.

Cowen Matthews Nylander
Mckenna Mctavish XXXXXXXXX
Joshua JT XXXXXXXX
Lorentz Quillan Holinka

Now for free agents id think Laine would look well on the 3rd line with JT and Joshua who can pick up the defensive slack.

The #2 spot could be Tuch, Roslovic are the only right handed options that could be available.


Now defensively

We should move out Rielly.

OEL ZZZZZZZZ
ZZZZZZZZZ Tanev
Mccabe Rinzel

We have 2 holes to fill, Anderson prefered after drafting Reid and bringing in Rinzel. for the last spot id thinking Ferraro would be the #1 choice to compiment Tanev, with Logan Stanley bein the second option.

Everyone else thats not bolted down we should trade for picks and prospects to use to upgrade players as we go.

09 May 2026 11:40:03
Pat Verbeek just puked in his mouth a little bit. Ducks aren’t doing that deal.

08 May 2026 00:53:25
Blues
1st overall 2026
Joshua. Cap dump
Quillan

Leafs
Carbonneau
Jiricek
3 1sts 2026

Matthews Domi Reilly to San Jose

Leafs
Both 1sts 2026
Lund
Musty
2nd overall draft Malhotra

Ducks
Nylander
Carlo
Benoit

Leafs
McQueen
Solberg
3 2nds 2027

Oilers
Stolarz
Robertson

Leafs
Howard.

07 May 2026 23:43:28
Really think that the Leafs should keep Matthews

Leafs trade Nylander to Hawks for 4th overall pick and 2nd '26 (Tor)

Leafs trade Rielly to the Sharks for 2nd '26

Leafs trade Stolarz to Canucks for DeBrusk

Leafs trade 2 2nds and Robertson to Stars for Harley

Leafs trade Domi to Jets for Barron

Leafs trade Myers, Maccelli and Benoit for picks

Draft McKenna and Reid or Verhoeff

Sign Laughton, P Kane, Marchment, Oleksiak and Raddysh

Knies Matthews P Kane
Cowan Tavares McKenna
DeBrusk Jenner Marchment Laughton Barron Lorentz
Spare Joshua

Harley Raddysh
McCabe Tanev
OEL Oleksiak


Woll
Hildeby

08 May 2026 01:14:38
Why would Dallas ever make that trade and give up Harley?
I like the Laughton and Raddysh Ufa signing ideas... but not sure about the other ones. P Kane is far too old, and I doubt Marchment will ever come back to TO.

09 May 2026 11:41:38
Kane is an absolute no.

07 May 2026 23:42:26
Matthews Rielly to Ducks
McTavish McQueen 3 2nds 2027 to Leafs

Nylander Robertson to San Jose
Graf Lund Musty to Leafs

Stolarz Quillan to Oilers
Howard to Leafs

Draft McKenna

Grandpa and the youth…
As my forward lines
McKenna McTavish Graf
Howard Tavares Cowan
Musty McQueen Lund
4th line who cares