Leafs Trade Rumors

05 May 2026 07:17:37
Workable trade idea or never.

Toronto Maple Leafs receive,
Dylan Strome
Tom Wilson
Ryan Leonard
1st-round dradt pick (top10 protected)

Washington Capitals receive
William Nylander.

05 May 2026 08:44:34
Never lol Nylander is a great player but that package is for a McDavid type player.

05 May 2026 09:18:33
Exactly GOAT. Not workable. If it was offered to the Leafs we would be flying private jets to pick up each player and their families in seconds. Washington would be petitioning the NHL that their G.M had been admitted to an insane asylum and the deal needs to be voided due to mental incompetence issues.

04 May 2026 19:21:56
- Robertson and Carlo to the L.A for Clarke
- Domi to Jets for Barron
- Rielly to Sharks for Musty and 26' 2nd
- Stolarz to Hawks for Burtuzzi

04 May 2026 20:51:01
Honestly, I could part with that, but keep in mind that’s two d-men, regular roster guys you have to sign in free agency to replace them by plenty of options to do so. Just saying, watch the wallet lol.

04 May 2026 21:46:50
L.A. is not giving uip Clarke for Robertson and Carlo that is a for sure.

Domi for Barron I could live with. Domi gets more points but Barron brings more size to your 4th with some offense and has potential to hit the 3rd line. Cheaper contract so yeah I would do that one.

Reilly to get rid of that Contract and get Musty and a 2nd I would do.



The last one with Stolarz. That one was put in there as a joke right? You want Chicago to take your injury prone back up goalie and you want them to give you their leading goal scorer from this year. Pretty sure as well that Bertuzzi has had enough of Toronto.

04 May 2026 22:05:53
Stolarz isn’t a backup goalie, it’s a tandem flock of seagulls. Stolarz is the better goalie. Trust me, I played the position at Junior B level.

05 May 2026 01:40:29
Not sure what your fixation with flock of seagulls is all about but I won't question your knowledge of Goalies now I know you played at a high level.

05 May 2026 02:06:00
It’s an old saying.

05 May 2026 02:08:07
A seagull is a bird that craps everywhere and contributes nothing.

05 May 2026 02:40:58
You can insult me all you want. It won’t change how I look at suggested trades. If I see good ones or good targets I let people know and why. If I don’t then I also point out why. I think I generally have valid reasons on why most will or won’t work. Once in a while I will just not want a player on the team for a variety of reasons. Whether people agree or disagree with my reasons that’s their perogative.

I know you don’t agree with my way I see the team improving and if you view me as a seagull well …. wear a hat because I’m pretty sure there are lot more seagulls on the site that might crap on your trades too. I’ve had people disagree with mine and never get upset with them. I still have interactions with no hard feelings.

05 May 2026 02:49:02
I am curious. If all the deals ByGully suggested we’re done why is it LeafsGM78 we need to replace 2 dmen?

05 May 2026 06:03:59
We’ll never question a former Jr B goalie!

05 May 2026 06:36:23
What is the flock of seagulls thing about?

Yes I heard about you at Junior B. You were that goalie that got shellshocked for 20 goals and jumped in front of the Subway that night to commit suicide but you failed because it went between your legs as well.

05 May 2026 09:44:15
I wasn’t padding my ego. I just meant at that level coaching becomes more intense. You start using video, you have an actual goalie coach, not someone's dad volunteering that sort of thing. I wasn’t trying to insult you. I enjoy the adversity. I just asked several times for suggestions on what your plan was and didn’t get a response, just more poo poo.

05 May 2026 10:29:19
Well, I think I, in most of my posts, have been pretty clear. That if we are retooling, we need to part with one big piece. Either Matthews, Nylander, or Knies. If we are rebuilding we need to determine which one we build around and which 2 get moved. I actually asked you quite a few times to outline your moves with your roster and how you would obtain that roster. It generally came back to hardly moving anyone and looking at signing free agents. Which is not easy to use as a strategy when 31 other teams want those players as well. So going back to this actual post. You had said that if ByGully did all these deals he originally mentioned we would have to watch the wallet because we'd have to get 2 roster defencemen. Why would that be?

04 May 2026 01:36:38
So I posted this one earlier today in response to an on going conversation with a counterpart on here. Just wanted to revisit it for everyone.

Tor: Petterson

Van: Reilly Robertson and pick and or prospect

I’d offer up our 1st from the Roy trade. A pick from Colorado might as well be a second round pick anyway.
For a closer or possible retention by Vancouver.

04 May 2026 01:23:41
Pettersson?
⚓️

04 May 2026 01:27:09
Yup him.

04 May 2026 12:26:34
That’s a trade that would never fly because both teams want to unload horrible contracts and both teams would each say “No we want more in return”. Canucks would say the package is too small for a guy who scored a hundred points. Leafs would say we want a top level prospect off your roster in case Pettersson never rebounds and we are saddled with that massive contract.

It would keep going like that. The only way a trade like that gets done is if you have a 3rd team with cap space ready to take on a chunk of Pettersson's salary. Similar to how Colorado, Carolina and Chicago did the Rantanen deal. But in that case Rantanen only had one year left. Pettersson has multiple years.

Not to mention…. Do we need another horrible defensive forward?

04 May 2026 14:27:43
Ok, but hear me out. Reilly makes 7.5. I think Robertson's ask will be somewhere around Domi’s contract, 3-3.5, so the money is kind of a wash. Mo is still a pretty good player, not exactly a dump, plus hometown maybe the only place he move to. Would I take on a crappy defensive forward to move Mo, who didn’t really have the best year on either side of the puck? Absolutely, and we need a 2c which will cost around 7 realistically. I think Pettersson just isn’t interested in playing in Vancouver and doesn’t have much support around him.

You don’t just lose talent or skill, there’s something more to it. I believe he would return to form here makes the Marner trade sting a little less. We’re not giving up elite players and won’t find a 2c without giving up assets we don’t want to. If we need a third team involved, it would have to be for Hildeby to retain. I'd rather it be Stolarz, but no one will pay 6.5 to retain 2 million for us.

04 May 2026 14:31:54
Dare I say I’d add our 1st round pick for this.

04 May 2026 15:50:58
I don’t think Vancouver gets a better offer without retaining and the Leafs won’t find a 2C without losing Cowan or Knies. This is almost a must do from my perspective.

04 May 2026 15:57:41
Well, the numbers still don’t work. On the surface, the way you describe it they do. However, you said Reilly is still a pretty good player. Well, you need to now spend money to replace his roughly 40 points a year from the back end. So now the numbers don’t match and say we don’t get a 1st this year.

Even though it’s a late first you would be giving away the only one we would have until 2029.

To sum up on Petterson, if his crappy play is because he doesn’t want to be there, then I don’t want him. If players do that they do it again elsewhere. Bad attitude is like a leopard changing its spots. Neither changes.

04 May 2026 16:13:34
Yes, he does need replacement. We have 22 million to do that, and Vancouver was a soap opera and he is surrounded by a team with little talent.

04 May 2026 16:19:19
It’s worth the gamble for me and Reilly can take his 40 points and minus 22 with him.

04 May 2026 16:59:10
Gamble away. I would rather trade Reilly straight up for a very good prospect and cap saving that to bring in a $11.6 million player that was 7 on his team in goals 2 years ago and tied for 5th in goals this year. Yes he is more of an assist guy but come on.

3 years of over 30 goals and now he is a 15 goal scorer and 50 points two years in a row. Sorry buddy. He is one player you will not convince me to take. No need to keep trying to convince me. On to the next trade suggestion.

04 May 2026 17:27:36
Yup. Keep suffering my good man

04 May 2026 17:29:07
Yup keep suffering buddy

04 May 2026 21:26:18
You must have hair like the lead singer from Flock of Seagulls lol.

03 May 2026 18:50:57
Leafs
Savoie
Jarry
Oilers
Stolarz

Leafs put Jarry on waivers

Kraken
Rielly
Joshua
Leafs retain 2.5 per on Rielly
Leafs
Wright

Sign UFA
McMann
Trouba
Raddysh


Draft lottery
Leafs stay in top 5

Draft Malhotra

And for heavens sakes
Fire Berube!!!!!!!!!

Hire Cassidy

Knies Matthews Savoie
McMann Wright Nylander
Grouix Tavares Cowan

4th liners
Lorentz Domi Quillan Haymes

OEL McCabe Trouba Raddysh
3rd pair Benoit Carlo

Woll
Hildeby

03 May 2026 18:17:18
Still have Tanev too

03 May 2026 18:18:32
So the Leafs have needed a top tier dman for 20 years and your idea is to draft a center?

And Trouba won't come to Toronto. I think he will resign in Anaheim.

03 May 2026 18:32:38
What do you do if No-one claims Jarry off Waivers?

03 May 2026 23:29:24
Hrenklin,

they need centers as much as defenders.
And are you Troubas agent?

Suffering 67,
I didn’t think I needed to mention it but Jarry goes to the ahl if nobody claims him

04 May 2026 08:25:44
You do realize that if he goes to the AHL have to pay him full salary and we only get cap relief of league minimum plus $375,000 which means we lose $4 million in cap space by doing that right? That’s why I asked.

So with that and $2.5 retention on Reilly that’s 6.25% of our total cap being paid for 2 guys not playing for us.

04 May 2026 16:11:03
@hrenklin, exactly! We draft the top D available. Hopefully Verheoff or Reid. If there’s another D option that’s better let me know.

04 May 2026 22:36:30
It all comes down to where we pick or if we get to pick after the lottery tomorrow.

If we pick 1st, I would approach Vancouver and see how badly they want McKenna (Media will be bad there but insane in Toronto and not sure McKenna could survive here) plus as good as he can be there are still some warts there for me anyway not everyone of course. But.... I Vancouver truly wanted him I would cut a deal that we would take Stenberg (Who I would want anyway lol) and for us letting them have McKenna they can have Reilly but we want Rossi. It's like playing a game of chicken lol.

If we pick 2nd and McKenna is gone then of course we take Stenberg.

If we pick 3rd, I like Verhoef because he is so good now and when you realize he has only played 5 years of hockey not being a goaltender his ceiling is going to be incredible.



4th, if those three are gone and we are in need of a D-man I would take Daxon Rudulph. When you watch their games in the playoffs he has taken his game to another level, not Matthew Shaeffer level but he has that side to his game and his compete level is very good. Some like Reid and Carels but of the 2 I would put Carels above Reid. Reid struggled at the end of the year and during the playoffs which was a bit of a red flag.

5th if available Malholtra. Even if the other Dmen were available (Unless Verhoef drop that far. Malholtra will be a extremely good player.

6th Which of course means Boston, I pick we boycott Boston Pizza for Treliving screwing us lol lol.

02 May 2026 20:47:12
Sundin on board means Nylander and Matthews will not be traded

So we get more of Domi Joshua Lorentz
Real game breakers... 😂

Will start watching again in September...
2035

lol

02 May 2026 22:18:44
That’s an awesome fourth line

03 May 2026 05:46:25
I have to play devil's advocate here in one way.

Brisebois would be the GM if he had permission to speak to Pelley. He is heavily involved in analytics.

Just because it is Chayka and Sundin (not who I would have hired), doesn't mean it has to be horrible.

03 May 2026 06:39:25
Brilliant comment on Tampa GM LeafsLife
I 👏😂👏😂

Your infinite wisdom and knowledge never ceases to amaze me.

03 May 2026 12:33:44
Facts are Facts and giving credit where credit is due is something Toronto needs to learn how to do.

03 May 2026 13:56:26
@ LeafsLife Sources say the conversation went like this:

Phone rings at Brisebois’s house at 7 in morning, call display shows Owner Jeff Vinik. “Hi Jeff”…..” Hi Julien, Keith Pelley called and wants permission to talk with you”…. “Ummm Tell him I am out of the country and can’t be reached!”….. “He saw you on T. V last night at the Canadiens game”…..”Ummmm tell him I am horribly sick and unable to speak”….. “Sigh…. He saw you being interviewed after the game and knows you can speak”…..

“Ok Ok can you just deny them the right to talk to me”….. “I already did that’s why I was calling you and also to tell you Connor McDavid called and would like to see you”…. “I’m getting dressed, get the jet ready for a trip in 2 hours to Edmonton. I want to take Vasilievsky, Point and Cirelli with me too…. You know just as a nice sight seeing trip. You blocked Pelley’s number right????” 🤣🤣🤣🤣

02 May 2026 10:10:45
Trade idea: Toronto Maple Leafs / Chicago Blackhawks
Toronto gives up.


Nick Robertson


Henry Thrun


Jacob Quillan


Noah Chadwick


Tiinus Luc-Koblar


2nd-round pick


Toronto gets:


Oliver Moore


Moore would be a really interesting pickup as a future 2C. Elite speed, great skater, and already shows strong two-way play. Clearly the best prospect in this deal and a higher ceiling than what Toronto is giving up here.
Toronto parts with some B-level prospects plus Robertson, but consolidates into a higher-end piece.
From there, they could look to find some hidden gems on defense in the draft. And if they have a chance to grab Chase Reid, that would be a nice add as well.

02 May 2026 14:05:14
Ridiculous overpay. If Moore is so elite, why would Chicago (that needs to increase their goal output) give up such an elite prospect at all. If I was doing it, I would do Robertson and the 2nd or Robertson and Thrun but no more.

Quillan, I think, could be a great depth player here or part of a much better trade package elsewhere.

Koblar I am not giving up until we get to see his progress from last year's Development Camp to this year's. Chadwick is too valuable to give away. He has not hit his full stride yet and no way do I want to see it in someone else's organization.

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.

02 May 2026 20:37:26
Who said I just looked at stats. You aren’t the only person that attends Marlies games or follows other players. Or has contacts that are connected.

02 May 2026 22:05:07
I have half these guys slotted in my lineup next year.

03 May 2026 01:41:51
@Thisisit I asked you once before when you mentioned you travel North America with your other Russian friend the scout. If he was an amateur or professional scout? All you said was professional because he gets paid. How long has he been scouting all these leagues you had said you guys attend games at?