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08 Jul 2026 14:01:15
Lunatic trade idea.
Toronto Maple Leafs acquire
Nino Niederreiter.
Winnipeg Jets acquire
Morgan Rielly
2027/ 2028 2nd-round pick-
Toronto lines is,
McKenna - Auston - Nylander.
Knies - Tavarese - Roslovic / Niederreiter.
Paul - Sissons - Niederreiter / Roslo.
Joshua / Lorenz - Blueger - Duhaime.
Extra Cowan. Domi out maby long time.
Leafs safe some money and that's good.
1.) 08 Jul 2026 15:37:17
You are going to sit Cowan in the press box? Wow!!!!
2.) 08 Jul 2026 16:05:32
Reilly won’t go there. Sitting Cowan is absurd.
3.) 08 Jul 2026 16:26:53
Thisisit you still posting your ludicrous proposals I see ????.
06 Jul 2026 22:18:34
Crazy trade idea---
Toronto get
Nate Schmidt
Julian Lutz ( Germany's McMann)
Utah 2027 2nd round pick
Utah receives
Morgan Rielly
Why not?
Caphit is ok now.
1.) 07 Jul 2026 00:24:03
Hard pass from Utah
2.) 07 Jul 2026 01:08:46
I’m still so upset we lost McMann. Would have fit perfectly on this team. Could of saved us from getting Roslovic too.
3.) 07 Jul 2026 01:30:47
Why would Utah give up 3 pieces for Morgan Rielly, a player Leafs are trying to dump?
04 Jul 2026 18:12:49
Trade idea.
Toronto Maple Leafs
Drew O'Connor
2027 2nd-round pick
To Vancouver Canucks
Morgan Rielly.
1.) 04 Jul 2026 18:22:40
We r trying to get rid of the log name of forwards and you are adding more. Not interested in O’Connor.
04 Jul 2026 13:00:39
Trade idea.
Toronto Maple Leafs
Ryan Pulock
New York Islander
Morgan Rielly
Phil Myers.
1.) 04 Jul 2026 15:36:07
What part of Rielly won’t wave unless it’s the 4-5 teams in west. If by some chance he does it won’t be for the Islanders ???
01 Jul 2026 21:52:23
Proposed trade.
Toronto Maple Leafs receive:
Cody Glass
Jeremy Hanzel
2028 2nd-round draft pick
New Jersey Devils receive:
Morgan Rielly.
1.) 01 Jul 2026 23:12:04
He’s not waving for NJD.
2.) 02 Jul 2026 14:03:57
He’s made it clear out west is where he’s going and home is where the heart is.
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11 Jun 2026 15:50:47
What if Toronto offered Micheal McLeod a contract close to the league minimum? He would fit perfectly on the fourth line because of his great faceoff ability, and he could rotate the fourth-center role with Jacob Quillan.
Michael McLeod can definitely terminate his KHL contract if a better opportunity comes up.
1.) 11 Jun 2026 22:44:26
I think a McLeod signing has been suggested recently.
I’m in at the minimum.
13 May 2026 10:22:55
Solid ideas. If I was the GM, I’d probably be fine with all of them. Coyle’s obviously off the market now, though. Fun to toss around different scenarios and ideas.
My choice is Stenberg and Chase Reid but it's ok if Leafs draft McKenna and Reid.
24 Apr 2026 13:29:46
Toronto should seriously consider giving Mark Jankowski a fair deal. He’d be a solid 4th-line center, good on the PK, and can slot in on the wing too. Plays a pretty mistake-free game, and that kind of reliability isn’t freee. I’d say around $1.8M x 4 years.
So what’s the verdict here? Is Jankowski actually a useless player, or are people underrating him?
1.) 24 Apr 2026 16:10:11
He has not earned more than $800,000 for the last 6 years why would you give him a million more per season? For 4 years.
2.) 25 Apr 2026 08:12:40
He’s not playing for $800k anymore. He had a strong season, and with the kind of tools Jankowski brings, you have to pay a bit for that. The cap is going up too, so locking him in as a 4C and PK guy for a few years would be an easy and sensible move. Toronto’s young centers are still a couple of years away from being NHL-ready, so they need to bring in a capable center through free agency or a trade.
Welcome, Jankowski... or at least hopefully welcome.
Also seen that Jason Robertson for William Nylander trade idea floating around… I’d be on board with that.
3.) 25 Apr 2026 12:03:04
So let's see. His salary going backwards for the last 6 years was 800,800,775,750,750,700 in thousands of course. He has had trouble staying healthy or playing full-time in the NHL without stints in the minors. Only the last 2 years has he not gone to the minors in those 6 years. He is a 4th line player. He had a decent year for a fourth liner but still again missed 14 games with injury.
I would give him a offer for $1 million which is a 25% increase but I am not giving him a 225% increase. For scoring .308 points a game. His career average is .300 points a game. So it's not like he blew up and found a big jump in scoring. $1 million is a fair offer for what he is and is going to be 32 at the start of the season.
4.) 25 Apr 2026 12:16:00
If you are looking for a player in that salary range that might accept a 1.8 or 2.0 million that will get a lot of interest, that can bring physicality and showed this year he can actually play some offense. Look at A.
J Greer from Florida. Free agent at $850.000 granted that is like earning $1.2 in Toronto, the Florida tax thing. So he may even have to get a hike to $2.5 in Toronto but he brings a big physical edge we are missing too.
5.) 25 Apr 2026 18:39:00
What about Teddy Blueger? At a similar price, he’s a smart, reliable option to handle the 4C role.
6.) 25 Apr 2026 21:03:51
Plays too soft. We need a 4th line that is fast but physical, they don't have to be high scoring but not weak defensively either, but other teams better lines are aware they are on the ice and nervous when we get home team line matching advantage at certain points in a game.
When Joshua is healthy with two similar players with him they can be that. Lorentz is good in that regard and as I said a Guy like A. J Greer can fill that role but he is also good enough to slot into the 3rd line as well to give toughness there as well.
25 Nov 2025 10:33:44
It is time for Toronto to trade all their first and second line players for draft picks or whatever they can get. After fifteen years of being an active fan I watched every single game for fifteen years I decided that Toronto was the wrong team to support. So I decided to stop following the NHL completely this season after game number twenty two. It is a tough decision but I need to find something more reasonable to replace it with. T. Ex fan.
02 Oct 2025 17:27:34
I think Connor Murphy could be a good fit for Toronto's blue line. In return, the Leafs could send out Robertson and Benoit. Murphy would bring a bit more offensive upside compared to Benoit, and the fact that he's a right-handed shot is definitely a plus.
Also, Järnkrokk can take Robertson's spot in the lineup number 13th player. As for Kämpf, he can be moved anywhere. even for nothing.
McCabe Tanev or Murphy
Rielly Murphy or Tanev
OEL CArlo.
1.) 04 Oct 2025 23:53:53
I really don't see a point. Benoit is fine for the role he plays.
20 Jun 2026 21:54:55
Montreal would probably accept a trade, because Hutson, Guhle, and Struble are much younger, and the latter two are already better than Matheson. And Struble will most likely surpass Matheson completely next season.
In addition, Montreal needs a right-shot defensive defenseman who can play on the second pairing.
Evans is not really a game-changer either, just a solid third-line center, around 30 years old, playing 15–17 minutes a night and producing about 30 points. He’s good for face-off guy and would be a useful addition to the thhird line, also strong on the penalty kill.
Lorentz is also around 30 years old, a 20-point player and more of a fourth-line guy, so a second-round pick would balance that value.
Now then, trade Hildeby for a righgt-winger who could play on the third or second line…
And yeah, Chayka will probably pull another rabbit out of the hat soon...
I met him twice. He has a very unusual way of seeing things. He does listen to others, of course, but I didn’t notice any arrogance in him, he actually seemed calmer and funnier than what I had heard before.
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02 May 2026 16:48:25
Well, it’s pretty obvious that those Toronto prospects are at best B-level players, while Oliver is an A-level talented center who’s going to play more games in the NHL than all those Leafs prospects combined.
You’ve probably only looked at stats, suffer67 and if that’s the case, you might want to do a bit more homework before jumping to these conclusions.
Next season Oliver will play a full season. I wonder if any of those other players in that trade will even play over 150 NHL games. See more games and analysis don't look stats too much.
28 Apr 2026 15:19:57
You can look at it that way if you want. Are you okay, suffer67? You focus on one word here on the forum and feel the need to jump on it,, if you’re like 15–20 years old, I can understand that attitude. But if you are older that's weird.
And Stolarz isn’t exactly a great player either, so swapping two players like that… sometimes teams just do that. Mangiapane brings so much more than just a shot, which is pretty much all Nick brings, so 100 times out of 100 I’d take Mangiapane over Robertson.
And there’s really no point in keeping Stolarz. Chicago could use an experienced backup who can play 20–30 games a season.
So does Toronto really not want to take a chance on a player coming off a weaker season? Only guys who are over performing allowed on the roster? Wow, okay then. Good luck for that.
28 Apr 2026 15:04:57
How do you know that Alex won’t sign with Toronto in the summer? Sure, I should probably check every player’s contract situation, but sometimes things get forgotten, that’s just life. Sorry for that.
Sometimes I ask out of curiosity which players Toronto is actively scouting. Sometimes I get information, and sometimes I just go with my own gut feeling. I probably have around 10 notebooks worth of “scouting-style” notes on players from about 20 years.
I watch games a bit differently than fans who are only interested in winning, I pay attention to player movement and how individuals perform, and then I compare that to Toronto and whether they might need a player like that.
Did you know, suffer67, that Chase Reid is ranked higher than Verhoeff in Toronto’s system? I don’t think you do...but assumptions aren’t the same as knowledge.
27 Apr 2026 18:42:08
*Great write-up, RLF*
I agree with what you said. Sillinger is honestly hard to project when it comes to his next contract, but he’s so versatile that you’re probably paying a premium of at least a million because of that.
I don’t hate Robertson either, it’s just that there doesn’t really seem to be a clear top-six role for him in Toronto, so I’d rather move on.
25 Apr 2026 18:39:00
What about Teddy Blueger? At a similar price, he’s a smart, reliable option to handle the 4C role.
25 Apr 2026 08:12:40
He’s not playing for $800k anymore. He had a strong season, and with the kind of tools Jankowski brings, you have to pay a bit for that. The cap is going up too, so locking him in as a 4C and PK guy for a few years would be an easy and sensible move. Toronto’s young centers are still a couple of years away from being NHL-ready, so they need to bring in a capable center through free agency or a trade.
Welcome, Jankowski... or at least hopefully welcome.
Also seen that Jason Robertson for William Nylander trade idea floating around… I’d be on board with that.