When is this seasons trade deadline?
This recent winning streak might keep us in the mix longer, but we are a still a bubble team and could find ourselves outside of the playoffs if we have another big losing steak.
IF this happens, Nonis can hopefully move Kulemin for futures. Personally I'd rather have him over a player like Clarkson, but I think that signing makes him expendable.
if not, I think we lose him as a free agent. He does not have the best hands, but hes proven that hes capable of scoring 30 goals when paired with good line-mates and 15 with limited minutes in a defensive role. I bet some team gets desperate and offers him 4 M on the open market. In the role he now has for the leafs, we can't afford to pay him that. We also have a good number of young players who are ready to step up into a bottom 6 roll with the leafs.