Speculation: Joonas Korpisalo trade to Leafs

[jacketsnation]

The Fourth Period is reporting that the Toronto Maple Leafs may be interested in Columbus goaltender Joonas Korpisalo.

The Maple Leafs seem to be in on every netminder as they contemplate dealing Frederik Andersen who is in his last season of a five-year contract and has yet to win a playoff series for the blue and white. If there is a deal to be made, Toronto would likely need to take back Brandon Dubinsky whose career seems to be over, but still carries a $5.85 million salary cap hit, something the Blue Jackets want to get rid of as they don't want to pay out the actual cash to the center. The player coming back, should there be a trade, will be less, if Dubinsky is part of the deal.

what would leafs give for korpi? Heard my jackets are looking for #2 center!

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[Skinnyjimmy08]

Geeze I thought u meant there is speculation that this happened haha

Edit... I see OP has been changed now

 

[kb]

what would leafs give for korpi? Heard my jackets are looking for #2 center!

Well, Tavares has a NMC, and Matthews isn't going for Korpisalo.....kinda leaves one option?

 

[SI90]

That would be huge for the leafs.

 

[TootooTrain]

That would be huge for the leafs.

I'd prefer Andersen.

 

[ViewsFromThe6ix]

Don't see the Leafs being interested in Korpisalo. Andersen is better.

 

[ACC1224]

The Fourth Period is reporting that the Toronto Maple Leafs may be interested in Columbus goaltender Joonas Korpisalo.

The Maple Leafs seem to be in on every netminder as they contemplate dealing Frederik Andersen who is in his last season of a five-year contract and has yet to win a playoff series for the blue and white. If there is a deal to be made, Toronto would likely need to take back Brandon Dubinsky whose career seems to be over, but still carries a $5.85 million salary cap hit, something the Blue Jackets want to get rid of as they don't want to pay out the actual cash to the center. The player coming back, should there be a trade, will be less, if Dubinsky is part of the deal.

what would leafs give for korpi? Heard my jackets are looking for #2 center!

Have to be Kerfoot.

 

[Cousin Eddie]

He’s been a pretty bad goalie his entire career. I doubt 9 games in the playoffs change that. In fact, 4 of those 9 playoff games actually weren’t very good. That 6 period game (which was a phenomenal showing by Korpisalo) really skews everything from opinion to stats on this guy despite the fact that he’s been very underwhelming.

.911 sv% this past season. .897% the year before. .897% again in the year before that. .905 the year before that.

I would assume if the Leafs are adding a goalie it’s because they want to upgrade Andersen. That doesn’t happen here.

If I’m Columbus I hang onto him. Elvis is young and Korpisalo won’t have much trade value. Hope for a solid duo and flip him in a year with some hopefully increased value.

 

[4thline]

I don't know what it would look like, but should be a Leaf target if we're moving Andersen. Not as an upgrade, but as a more cap efficient tandem option.

If you need a C Kerfoot is all that we have, but looking that state of the Jacket pick slate what about 15+ 44 for 21 and Korpi?

 

[Suntouchable13]

I'd hold on to Andersen, it's not his fault Leafs have not in the playoffs. Surround him with a better team, maybe. If Dubas and co. think someone else is going to be the saviour, they are delusional at best. If they give up assets to get a Korpisalo, that just means they will have less assets available to trade for players that can help round out the team better.

 

[LEAFANFORLIFE23]

The Fourth Period is reporting that the Toronto Maple Leafs may be interested in Columbus goaltender Joonas Korpisalo.

The Maple Leafs seem to be in on every netminder as they contemplate dealing Frederik Andersen who is in his last season of a five-year contract and has yet to win a playoff series for the blue and white. If there is a deal to be made, Toronto would likely need to take back Brandon Dubinsky whose career seems to be over, but still carries a $5.85 million salary cap hit, something the Blue Jackets want to get rid of as they don't want to pay out the actual cash to the center. The player coming back, should there be a trade, will be less, if Dubinsky is part of the deal.

what would leafs give for korpi? Heard my jackets are looking for #2 center!

Yeah well they can keep looking because Korpi doesn't land Tavares or Matthews

 

[Puckclektr]

Jesus. Just get some defense for the goalie. Same problem with all the other goalies they’ve had the last 15 years. Culpability continues to be put on the goalies when the management still has yet to put a reliable defense in front of them the better part of the last two decades.

 

[57special]

So, a .936, 1.84 GA average in this years playoffs isn't good enough for the Leafs?

Andersen is not the problem.

 

[biotk]

The Fourth Period is reporting that the Toronto Maple Leafs may be interested in Columbus goaltender Joonas Korpisalo.

The Maple Leafs seem to be in on every netminder as they contemplate dealing Frederik Andersen who is in his last season of a five-year contract and has yet to win a playoff series for the blue and white. If there is a deal to be made, Toronto would likely need to take back Brandon Dubinsky whose career seems to be over, but still carries a $5.85 million salary cap hit, something the Blue Jackets want to get rid of as they don't want to pay out the actual cash to the center. The player coming back, should there be a trade, will be less, if Dubinsky is part of the deal.

what would leafs give for korpi? Heard my jackets are looking for #2 center!

They won't get much for Korpi if Dubinsky also needs to be included.

 

[LEAFANFORLIFE23]

So, a .936, 1.84 GA average in this years playoffs isn't good enough for the Leafs?

Andersen is not the problem.

Thing is hw only has a year left

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

Korpisalo looked really good in the playoffs at times. But I don't really get it, because Andersen has certainly looked really good a lot of times too. A lot more times than Korpisalo ever has. And there's nothing whatsoever wrong with a $5M cap hit on a goalie as good as Andersen is.

I guess they are thinking longer term, past the coming season?

Korpisalo flashed just enough spectacular showings that you can at least consider he MIGHT - maybe - become as good as Andersen. Or maybe at a stretch even better? Well, longshot, but who knows. I guess if the cap savings works out, why not... trade somebody like Johnsson ($3.4M) (or even Nylander???) for Korpisalo ($2.8M) and then trade Andersen somewhere for futures, and you've saved a minimum of over $5M on the cap, which is not at all insignificant in this environment.

It could make sense, depending on how it all plays out.

If I was Korpisalo, I'd definitely rather play for Tortorella's team than the Leafs, though. That's going to be pretty hard on him.

 

[violaswallet]

Isn’t Dubi’s contract insured? Don’t see why it needs to go back

 

[SI90]

I'd prefer Andersen.

Andersen has been much more of a workhorse and has a proven track record. Korprisalo is only 26 and possibly just starting to blossom. He just played out of his mind in the playoffs.

that being said, if you switch Andersen and Korpisalo then Andersen probably has much better numbers behind the CBJ defense.

 

[JohnnyJacket13]

If you can’t beat him, trade for him

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

I don't know what it would look like, but should be a Leaf target if we're moving Andersen. Not as an upgrade, but as a more cap efficient tandem option.

this is the only reason I can see that Leafs would prefer Korpi to Freddy.

And I don’t see any great financial benefit to CBJ to include Dubinsky, and it would eliminate some financial benefit to Leafs.

 

[TheDoldrums]

So, a .936, 1.84 GA average in this years playoffs isn't good enough for the Leafs?

Andersen is not the problem.

I mean if playoff performance is what matters Korpisalo was better, why wouldn't they want the better goalie?

 

[IranCondraAffair]

I think it is a good fit conceptually.

Insured players aren't entirely covered by insurance. Trading Dubinsky probably saves them a good chunk of change and Korpisalo is a bit of an expensive luxury as well. Dubois isn't going to be cheap and losing both guys saves 8.5M on cap which gives them more than enough space without resorting to using Dubinsky's LTIR exception.

For the Leafs, they're going to be against the cap anyway, so going over it with LTIR money isn't a big deal. Dubinsky si pretty meaningless. Also, Korpisalo is a good "push" to a guy like Andersen in case of struggles. Plus he's signed for one more season, so if he does take over the job, it won't immediately jack-up the Leafs salary. After taking on Dubinsky, the cost should be much reduced as well, allowing the Leafs to pick up someone withotu paying UFA prices or giving up real assets.

 

[DRAGO 18]

I would just keep Andersen if i am the Leafs

 

[Poppy Whoa Sonnet]

Don't see the Leafs being interested in Korpisalo. Andersen is better.

Contracts matter. Korpisalo is 2.8m x 2, UFA. If Columbus retains on Korpisalo he could be incredibly valuable to Toronto. They'd be paying their goaltending peanuts and could cap out on their defensemen. It would be a major competitive advantage.

 

[LeafGrief]

So, a .936, 1.84 GA average in this years playoffs isn't good enough for the Leafs?

Andersen is not the problem.

Most of us know that he's not the problem. The issue is that he's clearly not the answer either, and we might be able to use the cap space somewhere else (find the elusive answer), or get an asset instead of having him walk as a UFA next summer.