Ya, not 6-7 1st rounders stupid.
Washington gets a couple of ok players and 16th.
No one ever said Nylander and matthews wouldn’t bring a decent return.
But the leafs arent rebuilding…THEY DONT HAVE THE NEXT 2 YEARS OF THEIR 1ST ROUNDERS.
For the dummy in the back
Again, you’re a libtard. These returns for lesser players is proof the Leafs could easily get four 1st round picks for Matthews and three 1st round picks for Nylander. With 50% retained salary, contenders would be bidding each other up for a chance at Matthews for 6.5 AAV. It would be a gold mine of a return.
Easily another five or six by selling off the rest of the depth pieces at the deadline. Then they could acquire more 1sts by eating bad contracts like Hill and Gallagher.
Not having their own 1st sucks but letting Matthews walk as a UFA is worse. Then they’re stuck with literally nothing and would take 5 years of tanking to try and recover the lost assets. The Leafs could also easily get back young roster players instead of pure draft picks which would mitigate their tanking.
This has been explained many times already you’re just too stupid to understand it.