The Toronto Maple Leafs are out there for a top-four defenseman and a top-six ahead
TSN: After the Quinn Hughes commerce, to no shock, the Calgary Flames received extra calls on defenseman Rasmus Andersson, in accordance with Pierre LeBrun.
“What’s going to be fascinating is how the Flames deal with that potential commerce. Do they transfer him as a conventional rental? He’s a pending UFA. Or do they contain the agent, Claude Lemieux, into a possible sign-and-trade to get extra worth in a commerce?
One factor I ought to point out is that among the many groups which have circled again on Rasmus Andersson is the Toronto Maple Leafs.”
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LeBrun added that the Leafs tried to accumulate Andersson on the deadline final 12 months and that he thinks the Leafs could be one of many groups that Andersson would contemplate signing an extension with.
Darren Dreger provides that the Leafs are occupied with Andersson or some other top-four defenseman that could be accessible, however the asking costs have to come back down.
The Leafs may additionally use a top-six winger to play with Auston Matthews. Dreger notes that the Leafs don’t have a whole lot of property to work with.
TSN: The Toronto Maple Leafs might be on the lookout for two top-six forwards, in accordance with Darren Dreger, however the Maple Leafs don’t have the large commerce property.
“We all know that Treliving wish to add one other top-six ahead, possibly two top-six forwards, however based mostly on what we noticed between the Minnesota Wild and Vancouver Canucks, certain, logically, you may have a look at one thing like that and say ‘huge offers like this will occur,’ however the Wild had the items to lure Quinn Hughes from Vancouver, and the Maple Leafs’ cabinet shouldn’t be as stocked.
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“That kind of participant, the kind of playmaking participant that Matthews wants on that line, isn’t accessible. However because the season progresses, you may inform that the warmth goes to raise right here.”
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