CatchyTune
JOHN TAVARES IS A MAPLE LEAF
1st round picks are never not highly valued.At some point, you have to be willing to move quality assets to get good players. Toronto's 1st round pick isn't highly valued this year. It should be a bottom 5 pick in the round. If it were a top 15 pick, that's a different story.
I think Niemela would be around the floor in terms of the key prospect that Nashville would be willing to take in return for Ekholm. They'd likely have to be negotiated with down to that, because their initial ask would almost certainly involve Sandin or Liljegren.
i bet they would start at Liljegren but i cant see them getting a 1st and him. if this were a larger blockbuster deal Liljegren could be here. but at that point it would just get unrealistic (im talking Ekholm+Forsberg)