Leafs Trade Rumors

19 May 2026 00:43:21
Leafs
Hertl

Vegas
Quillan
Robertson

Vegas needs to dump salary
Leafs need a 2nd line Center

18 May 2026 23:56:15
Sounds good…. Not sure Vegas does it.

18 May 2026 19:35:36
To Toronto
Karlsson $5.9M/1yr

To Vegas
Carlo $3.49M/1yr
2026 2nd

Howden has been playing well at 3C, so this helps out Vegas who will be in a cap crunch next season.
Plus they get a top 4RHD and save about $2.5M cap space.

Leafs get a fast, defensive 3C, who is grest on the PK (he can even play 2C IMO).

Thoughts?

18 May 2026 15:54:34
I did not realize until today that the State of Washington passed a new Millionaires tax on March 30th of this year, which takes effect January 1, 2028.

This is something to take into account when looking at any trades involving Seattle. Initially, it looked like that might be a team players would get traded to and increase their take home pay with the No State Tax. But now it means any athlete that goes there will be paying $99,000 extra per $1,000,000 after the initial first $1,000,000.

Starting Jan. 1, 2028.

That is a factor that any player with a no trade will now be taking into account. Not to mention, Seattle will be careful on their contracts in the next few years with younger players when they hit RFA as even though the cap will go up again in the 2027-2028 season. They will need to save cap room if they want to try to get free agents or players at the deadlines going forward. This could be a huge game changer to the way they will do business.

18 May 2026 18:59:05
Unreal…. And Gary Bettman will look us in the eye and tell us that teams like Florida and Tampa don’t have an advantage. Tampa is about to sign Raddysh for 6 mil when he’d get 9 in Toronto 😂

18 May 2026 20:47:19
I’m sure if Toronto had the tax advantages you wouldn’t be commenting mattyboy.
The economic benefits are what they are
Maybe if we had a decent team players would come here irregardless of the tax situation
Winning is incentive
Having a jackass like Treliving and his army of assistants gm’s in charge didn’t help
Let’s see what wonder boy Johnny can do

18 May 2026 22:38:07
Exactly. It was not the NHL that passed the High income Tax in Washington as it is something that was needed in that state for a while. However... when the NHL brought in the Salary Cap it was to prevent the rich teams just throwing money around to outbid every team with their wealth to get the best players. (Never worked in Toronto because or terrible management doing the signings.) But with some teams not having State Tax and other States having lower taxes and with the Canadian Provinces having hight taxes.

A true equitable Salary cap would be one that calculates in each year the Take home pay percentage to put each team in the league on a level playing field. So if your Tax is lower your Salary cap is lower but the same percentage of a team that has a higher tax. Only fair way of doing it in my opinion.

18 May 2026 11:21:15
Chicago
Matthew’s
Carlo
Woll
1st 2027

Toronto
Bedard
1st 2026

Draft Mckenna
Draft best D available (hopefully Reid)

18 May 2026 12:41:49
So my question woukd be …. Why would Matthew’s waive his no trade to go to Chicago if Bedard was gone and so was Chicago’s first round pick this year. He would be going to a worse situation than he was leaving. Makes no sense at all.

19 May 2026 00:30:20
I was just spitballing, didn’t know any of these trades were so serious that we couldn’t have a conversation about it lol chill.

18 May 2026 00:09:10
Wild
Matthews
Robertson

Leafs
Faber
Yurov
Ryder Ritchie

18 May 2026 18:14:04
I'm not convinced Yurov's anything special if we're insisting on trading Matthews and getting a young centre in return.

I also don't think MIN moves Faber.

As much as they need help at centre, they may not have the assets to acquire a true star centre. They may be able to scrape something together for a Trochek, but I don't think they're getting a star.