The Toronto Maple Leafs are available in the market 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 line with Pierre LeBrun.
“What’s going to be attention-grabbing is how the Flames deal with that potential commerce. Do they transfer him as a standard 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 yr and that he thinks the Leafs could be one of many groups that Andersson would think about signing an extension with.
Darren Dreger provides that the Leafs are fascinated about Andersson or some other top-four defenseman that could be out there, however the asking costs have to return down.
The Leafs might additionally use a top-six winger to play with Auston Matthews. Dreger notes that the Leafs don’t have a number of property to work with.
TSN: The Toronto Maple Leafs might be in search of two top-six forwards, in line with Darren Dreger, however the Maple Leafs don’t have the massive commerce property.
“We all know that Treliving wish to add one other top-six ahead, possibly two top-six forwards, however primarily based on what we noticed between the Minnesota Wild and Vancouver Canucks, positive, logically, you possibly can take a look at one thing like that and say ‘large offers like this will occur,’ however the Wild had the items to lure Quinn Hughes from Vancouver, and the Maple Leafs’ cabinet isn’t as stocked.
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“That kind of participant, the kind of playmaking participant that Matthews wants on that line, isn’t out there. However because the season progresses, you possibly can inform that the warmth goes to raise right here.”
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