31 Jan 2025 13:17:25
Something different
Ana
Reaves $1.35
Cowan ELC
Niemela ELC
Tor
Johnston $1.1M
Luneau ELC
2 big prospects being swapped (Luneau/Cowan)
Anaheim suffers from lack of offence. Cowan will help that when he is ready. Reaves is a contract dump basically, but he may see the ice more often in Anaheim than Toronto. Niemela is a lesser RD than they trade but gives them an RD prospect in return.
Leafs get a 4th liner that is tough and an upgrade on Reaves. Luneau is the top 4 point producing RD that the Leafs have wanted for a while. He could probably be called up to play now, but is waiver exempt.
31 Jan 2025 16:09:34
RLF. I haven't been following Luneau in a while, but I noticed he's back to playing in the AHL getting some more seasoning (after all he just turned 21 a couple weeks ago) .
Are they still as high on him or have expectations gone down?
31 Jan 2025 17:17:31
Tags. He had that leg infection that kept him out almost all last year. He made the team at the start of the season, but was a bit behind from not playing. Down in the A, he's put up 22pts in 27 games on the worst team in the Pacific. He just put up 12 pts in his last 5 games. I think he is starting to find his stride again.
Anaheim is simply stocked with young D talent. I would think having Cowan and Sennecke (who they drafted) as high end forward talent, would be enticing. Add them to Gauthier, McTavish and Carlsson and Anaheim is well on their way through the rebuild.
31 Jan 2025 18:02:03
RLF. Leafs desperately need to add some young blue chip stock to their aging defense core.
I guess this is something more for next season, so hopefully they can trade Rielly in the off season and replace him with Pettersson to play along side with Luneau.
McCabe - Tanev
Pettersson - Luneau
OEL -?
See some good potential there.
31 Jan 2025 18:05:23
And yes, I forgot about that leg infection. So it definitely paused his development, good to hear he's succeeding nicely in the AHL.
31 Jan 2025 19:02:17
Tags. If Leafs could add Pettersson and Luneau, that would fit in nicely. Especially with the ages of Tanev, OEL and McCabe over 30. Then you would have Pettersson, Benoit, Myers and Luneau under 30, with Danford, Chadwick, Rafai, Webber etc developing.
31 Jan 2025 20:39:10
Looks like Niemela is the forgotten man. I don't even think he has much trade value.