The unending Nick Robertson commerce hypothesis
It’s one other offseason hypothesis surrounding Toronto Maple Leafs winger Nick Robertson. He’s a restricted free agent with a wage arbitration date early subsequent month. He’s requested for a commerce previously, however the Maple Leafs have held on to him.
Is that this the summer season that they lastly transfer him, or do they decide that they want his scoring potential and sure, lower-end wage?
Tyler Yaremchuk and Matt Larkin on Daily FaceOff Live focus on Nick Robertson’s future, and the Maple Leafs do look to maneuver, would there be a match with the Columbus Blue Jackets and disgruntled ahead Yegor Chinakhov?
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Yaremchuk: “We had been joking earlier than the present, each summer season for the final three summers it appears like, it truthfully appears like longer than that, we’ve needed to discuss Nick Robertson. And once more, his arbitration listening to is developing. Who is aware of in the event that they’ll discover a deal?
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Who is aware of in the event that they’ll discover a commerce? This can be a man who’s been on each commerce board for the final three seasons, Matt. His numbers, his field rating all the time look nice. What do you make of Nick Robertson within the Leafs? Are we lastly going to get a ultimate, a finale to this saga?
Larkin: “Effectively, the irony is, that is the primary summer season the place I feel I’m not predicting a commerce, after which, in fact, the trades going to occur due to that.
However I do surprise if the Leafs really want him proper now, as a result of they’re crunched in opposition to the cap. I assume regardless of the quantity goes to be in arbitration, you possibly can match him below the him below the cap. There’s nonetheless about, I feel it’s $2.8 million, give or take. And proper now, simply after dropping Mitch Marner, it’s a must to discover depth scoring for affordable wherever you may get it. And he may give you 15 targets within the backside six.
That stated, I do know for those who commerce (Nick Robertson) some other place, to a weaker crew that might play him on the second line, he’s going to get 20 to 25 targets as a result of he can shoot the puck. Simply on a contending crew, he doesn’t match within the backside six. He’s miscast.
I don’t assume he’s a very clever participant. I’m not attempting to be impolite. I simply don’t assume it’s his energy. He has good uncooked instruments. Doesn’t have the dimensions, doesn’t have the hockey sense to play in a checking position. Hasn’t actually been a superb hockey match.
So I do surprise, is there a change of surroundings sort of commerce accomplice on the market for the Leafs? I feel you bought to have a look at the Columbus Blue Jackets with Igor Chinakhov. I can’t take credit score for the concept, I’ve seen it on the market. However I feel that makes loads of sense. It could be a superb wager for the Leafs on a participant with upside, and it provides Robertson a change of surroundings, which I feel he badly wants. He wants a crew that has extra confidence in him, that gained’t maintain yanking him out and in of the lineup, and he simply by no means is aware of the place his place goes to be any given day, week or month.
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Yaremchuk: “Yeah, and also you talked in regards to the Leafs being tight to the cap, not fairly as tight, although, as they’ve been in previous years. So if there’s a deal like having to afford a you understand, what’s it, $2.1 million for Chinakhov? You’ll be able to completely make that occur for those who’re Toronto and also you consider sufficient within the participant.
Chinakhov, additionally 24 years outdated. A kind of tales from the final week asking for a commerce out, all of that stuff. There’s all the time the little veiled risk to and it was within the tweet, I consider from his agent, the place it was like, may go to Russia, I may go to Russia for those who don’t give me what I would like. Then who is aware of about that?”
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