Leafs Trade Rumors

03 Mar 2026 15:47:51
It's sounding like a buyer's market. I think the new rules with no double retention and being cap compliant in the playoffs are the cause of this.
It's unfortunate that when the Leafs are in sell mode, it turns into a buyer's market 😆 so Leafy!

Anyways, I still think Edmonton is our best trade partner, they are still so tight against the cap and we have a couple UFA's with very low AAV's.

To Edmonton
McMann $.675M (@50% retained)
Laughton $.750M (@50% retained)

To Toronto
Mangiapane $3.6M/ 1 more season (cap dump)
2027 1st
2026 2nd
Akey, Beau ELC

I think this is a pretty fair deal all around.


Edmonton clears some cap and picks up 2 needs. They get some scoring in their top 9 and some more defensive/ PK help.
Toronto trades both their UFA's and can possibly revisit a signing in the off-season.
They restock their draft cupboards and pick up a young Dman who has some good upside (I would have like Howard, but I don't think Edmonton parts with him).

Thoughts?

03 Mar 2026 16:14:53
@Tags, would you trade Woll or Stolarz for Tippett?

03 Mar 2026 16:56:04
@Clarky
I'm not very high on Tippett.
He has great speed and some offensive pop, but lacks defensive awareness imo. We already have Nylander (who I know you don't like).
Instead, Leafs need someone more like Tuch, who I hope he makes it to FA.



I would much rather trade Woll or Stolarz for defensive help. Montreal may need a goalie. I would look at their young defencemen and see what type of deal they could make.

03 Mar 2026 17:57:19
Tuch will get almost double what Tippett gets $$$ wise. And you can’t compare Tippett and Nylander at all. At $6 million Tippett likes to forecheck and plays a physical game. Nylander, well 😞😞😞.

03 Mar 2026 19:44:06
Any trade with Oilers needs to bring back Howard.

03 Mar 2026 09:43:20
Toronto trades Scott Laughton, Nicolas Roy and Simon Benoit in exchange for Cole Smith and Nicolas Hague.

02 Mar 2026 22:59:04
Did anyone head Dreger's feed that Toronto is trying to do a deal for Robert Thomas. The rumoured asking price is Matthew Knies, Easton Cowan and Toronto's 1st round pick in 2028.

They are saying the Leafs would gain a centreman to feed the wingers. I love Robert Thomas but that is a huge price to pay in my opinion, Plus it is kind of redundant to Trade 2 wingers you are looking towards for next season for production. So now who are are these wingers that Thomas is supposed to feed?

02 Mar 2026 22:22:56
Wendel Clark and Rick Vaive are the 2 wingers…

02 Mar 2026 22:38:29
Robertson Domi Stecher was tredeadthing’s counter offer
So I have heard 😏.

02 Mar 2026 23:26:30
3 Midgets for a Man. Although I do like Troy Stecher. The guy gives it every night. One of the few that does.

03 Mar 2026 17:33:12
That asking price is such a collosal overpayment I nearly had a stroke just reading it.

02 Mar 2026 14:57:53
I know we all have these great ideas for Trading Matthews and Nylander to certain teams for certain players, prospects and picks etc. There are some factors to look at if some of the teams are even feasible. I think one team that we can rule out to a point is San Jose. Yes, they do have the largest amount of Cap room in the NHL for next season of almost $55,000,000. However... the buzz out of San Jose is that they are not going to screw around and are going to Extend Will Smith and Macklin Celebrini on July 1 to avoid any distractions leading up to their RFA the following season. So between the 2 that will eat up roughly 16 to 17 million bringing that down to 38 or 39 million and if they were to add in 13,500,000 of Matthews then that is now 25 or 26 million. Of course, everyone wants Dickenson or Misa in the trade if not both. So even without parting with either of those players they have only 11 players out of 23 signed for next year. And if they added Matthews that really leaves a average of just over $2 million a player to fill the other roster spots of 12 players.

It would be a pretty lean looking team. I think Grier is going to stay the course and build from within and maybe a couple of Free agents in the $7 million range and keep Dickenson and Misa and the other prospects. They are knocking on the door for the playoffs now and truthfully if Will Smith had not been hurt for 13 games they would probably be in the wildcard by 6 points of so. The team that is positioned best I think is Seattle for landing a big name as they have 21 of 23 players signed and probably a deeper group of prospects than anyone other than Utah (Coin Flipper on that). Darkhorse for a big signing or Trade is Pittsburgh. 16 signed and large salary cap available. Malkin is having a great year for a man his age, but they have put off talking a extension maybe because Dubas is looking at a large trade after the season for a younger body for long term. Never rule Dubas out on anything. He is crafty.

02 Mar 2026 14:17:05
I don’t know, I’m losing faith in these guys. I thought maybe we move Nylander and get Sennecke back in a deal from Anh. But I watched Anh play yesterday and Sennecke is already better than Nylander and so is Gauthier. Not to mention Carlson is better than Matthews too. Like what happened to these guys? Lost all their heart or are we so bad in our end that these guys do not get enough offensive zone time? But watching other teams' superstars compared to ours is a massively eye opening difference in the impact they have in the game.

Plus Anh actually rolled 4 lines until they needed a goal in the 4th whereas they try putting Matthews out every 2nd shift here. This team and system is broken and I’m not sure if there is any repairing it unless they make me GM.

02 Mar 2026 17:13:39
@ Clarky17 Part of it is these young guys are all playing for their first real contracts after their entry salaries. So they have that jump that Matthews and Nylander had in their early days. Once Anaheim does extensions with Gauthier, Carlsson, Zellweger, and Mintyukov their cap space will shrink by all forecasts by $30 Million.

At least they have Sennecke sewn up on the entry level contract for another 2 years.

01 Mar 2026 23:21:19
Why don’t we make this year a tryout for all our D that could have some potential.
Trade Reilly now so we can use his spot for experience.

Trade Reilly to CBJ for Olivier (I really want a tough guy on this team on F and on D). We play differently when we have toughness in the lineup.
- Trade OEL for a 1st+
- Sit Tanev for the rest of this year, maybe move Benoit if there interest in him.



We have Carlo, Stetcher and McCabe left.

Bring in Danford, Villeneuve as a PP D, Rifai, Thrun, Mermis, Chadwick. Test this out, then go get what you need in the off-season which is probably still a puck moving D that doeant hurt you in our own end (as I don’t have the faith in Villeneuve as some do). Any other D you’d like to see given a shot, please comment below 👇.

01 Mar 2026 23:42:16
Why would Columbus trade Olivier, a very useful player for Rielly who has little to no value whatsoever?
That doesn’t make sense.
Since we are retooling not embarking on a long term rebuild, it would seem to be more logical to trade OEL for Draft+1, Draft+2 and Draft+3 players who are nearly ready to step into the lineup now or this fall.


A first round pick draft pick in 2026 won’t make the Leafs roster until 2028 at the earliest and a 2027 - 1st round pick (Edmonton’s offer) isn’t likely to play for the Leafs until 2029 or even 2030.
After Matthews’ contract has expired.

02 Mar 2026 00:13:12
@WB I think most Leafs fans fans agree with you on Reilly but he will do much better somewhere else, he needs a change of scenery.
I hear what you’re saying on the draft picks but I personally think we move on from Matthews and Nylander and call it a full rebuild in the off season. Get some young prospects like Sennecke type and build around that and FFS get some toughness.



I also got news for you WB, we ain’t winning with Matthews and Nylander here anyways, so the narrative of getting some ready-now pieces while we still have Matthews doesn’t appeal to me. Those two are gonna give us our most assets back, not nickle and diming with 3/4th line players.

02 Mar 2026 17:33:30
@ Clarky. Re: the Defense Tryout. I am all for it. I am looking forward to seeing Chadwick at that next level. Danford, I don't think we will see this year. The OHL schedule still has 3 weeks to go and their playoffs start March 26. Danford's team in Brantford looks like they could go pretty deep in the playoffs.

Even if they only go 2 rounds that would take them roughly to April 16 or so and that is when the NHL season ends. But... it would be nice if he could anchor a team to the Memorial Cup.

02 Mar 2026 22:58:00
I would sign UFS Logan Stanley, a behemoth who fights, skates well and can duke it out with anyone.

He also seems to have an offensive side this year.

Don’t think it’s a huge price.