They will need some trading partners to move players.
It doesn’t sound like teams are lining up for a few Leafs players available
There are plenty of trading partners. Desperate contenders and pretenders always overpay.
To Montreal: Roy for a 1st round pick. Another Frenchman for playoff depth.
To Detroit: OEL for a 1st round pick. Swedes love Detroit, plus they need another experienced point producer on the blueline. Carlo could also go to Detroit for a 1st.
To Buffalo or Minnesota: Roy and/or Laughton for a 1st round pick. Both are the worst two teams in the NHL at FOs. Both want to make a playoff push.
To Edmonton: McMann for a 1st round pick. Hometown kid, plays with speed, they need the added scoring depth when McDavid gets swarmed.
To Utah: Stolarz for Vanacek and a 2nd round pick. Or to Carolina for Kochetkov and a 2nd round pick. Both teams need a viable back-up, 1A.
To Dallas: Robertson and Carlo for Lundkvist and 1st round pick. Dallas needs another RHD for depth and depth scoring.
That’s legit potential for four or five 1st round picks, a 2nd round pick and a young RHD.
Then at the next draft, you trade Matthews. After that, Nylander, Rielly and Tavares will all want out after Matthews is moved. That’s another four 1st round picks and two top prospects for Matthews and Nylander. Tavares might get you a 1st round pick. Rielly is just a straight up dump.
The problem is the king retard Pelley doesn’t want to sell or rebuild. He thinks they can still make the playoffs. And Treliving, being the idiot that he is, won’t make good deals with this abomination of a season being proof of what kind of dumbass deals he made in the past 18 months.
This team is fucked from the top down, just like the country.