Confirmed Trade: [TOR/MIN] Connor Dewar for Dmitry Ovchinnikov, 2026 4th round pick

[Man Bear Pig]

Privilege hire Brad Treliving is masterful at landing players I couldn't care less about.

Dubas emptied the cupboards for years on end, what did people expect? The Leafs have no picks and only a few good prospects. The only asset to offer was/is Robertson, and he wasn't going to be valued as much more than a late 2nd round pick at this point. This team cannot continue bleeding assets, it's on the $40+ million invested up front.

 

[Leafsfanperson]

Dubas emptied the cupboards for years on end, what did people expect? The Leafs have no picks and only a few good prospects. The only asset to offer was/is Robertson, and he wasn't going to be valued as much more than a late 2nd round pick at this point. This team cannot continue bleeding assets, it's on the $40+ million invested up front.

I agree, all the more reason to not give away picks for 7th and 9th defensemen. Treliving gave away six picks for guy that are basically waiver tier.

Treliving didn't help this team get better or worse so why burn six picks?

There is not plan. The guy doesn't have a clue what he's doing.

But his dad is rich so he had connections to land a job he sucks at.

 

[genk]

Treliving didn't help this team get better or worse so why burn six picks?

There is not plan. The guy doesn't have a clue what he's doing.

This is exactly right. The Leafs just burned six picks for such little benefit that they might as well have done nothing. These were moves for the sake of making moves.

 

[57special]

Quality speedy 4th line Tyler Motte type and only 24, no idea why Minnesota dumped him for nothing but a nice pickup for Toronto.

Guerin gave NMC/NTC contracts to bottom six players like Foligno, Hartman, Gaudreau, they still owe 15M in cap penalties next year, so they seem to feel that even a slight salary bump to Duhaime and Dewar was not possible.

 

[Speatleysson]

Why the hell does the same joke get said every time the Leafs make a trade. Dude your joke was old like 20 years ago.

The joke may be 20 years old, but it's been valid for 57 years

 

[rynryn]

Quality speedy 4th line Tyler Motte type and only 24, no idea why Minnesota dumped him for nothing but a nice pickup for Toronto.

Gotta stockpile that Draft capital.. never know when a late pick is gonna be the deciding factor.

 

[I am Canadian]

This is exactly right. The Leafs just burned six picks for such little benefit that they might as well have done nothing. These were moves for the sake of making moves.

Everyone has a boss. They can now show they went and got 3 players to try and improve the team. At the end of the day the owners want more playoff revenue.

I doubt they believe in this iteration of the team, so they are saving major assets for summer moves.

 

[OVO16]

Ideal 4th line player for the playoffs. I love this trade

 

[rynryn]

keep him on the PK--he seems to get more shorthanded chances than the average player.

 

[Commander Clueless]

The joke may be 20 years old, but it's been valid for 57 years

And yet, never good.

One would think with 57 years to work with, some new material would take over.

 

[shortfuze]

I agree, all the more reason to not give away picks for 7th and 9th defensemen. Treliving gave away six picks for guy that are basically waiver tier.

Treliving didn't help this team get better or worse so why burn six picks?

There is not plan. The guy doesn't have a clue what he's doing.

But his dad is rich so he had connections to land a job he sucks at.

You don’t know if they got better. No one knows yet how much they will contribute in the playoffs. But it would be stupid to not try and help them win by bringing guys in.

This is exactly right. The Leafs just burned six picks for such little benefit that they might as well have done nothing. These were moves for the sake of making moves.

No it wasn’t. It’s always a good thing to have more depth on D when going into the playoffs.

 

[Michel Beauchamp]

And yet, never good.

One would think with 57 years to work with, some new material would take over.

Why dump a classic ?

 

[Space umpire]

And yet, never good.

One would think with 57 years to work with, some new material would take over.

Why come up with something new when it’s just so true and funny
And every passing year it’s funnier.

 

[Prominence]

Scouting report on Dmitri Ovchinnikov:

- Really good skater, both north/south and east/west
- Decent hands. Was both a playmaker and goal scorer in the mhl. Not really a sniper or shooter, but will crash the net or high danger areas if they're open
- Was used on both pp/pk in the mhl. He has the skating to pk for sure
- At the khl level, he has struggled to translate his skill but that may be due to poor development as they should have temporarily let him play on a bad team like what magnitogorsk did for grebenkin.
- His development was horrible. Spent too much time in Russia. He would play less than ten minutes per game. They did not have a plan for him even though Sibir was meh.
- Projects to be a bottom six player. I don't know if he has the skill for the top six unless injuries happen. I am pessimistic whether he has that extra gear or patience to make the nhl, but anything can happen.
- There's quite a bit of depth on the marlies so 10 points in 20 games is not too bad

If I was toronto, I would have tried to unload Abbruzzese instead.

 

[Isaac Nootin]

If I was toronto, I would have tried to unload Abbruzzese instead.

Both are/will be AAAA players IMO, no real difference.