Both of his goals came from the blue paint, he's also likely to score his goals in close during the regular season
That's Nylander by the way, good effort for a guy who won't buy in
I did hear something about Marner not having a 5v5 point in his last 12 playoff games so I'm less worried about his willingness to get hit and more worried why an 11M player isn't producing like an 11M player
How about this, only trade one of them if the deal is going to make us better instead of playing favorites?
Sounds good to me. Same with making a more balanced lineup if it actually makes our team better, not just for the sake of balance? Nothing wrong with having a more balanced team. I like balance. But balance does not guarantee winning either, and if your pursuit of balance leads to you making a poor trade or icing a worse team, then those are the types of moves which get you fired. It's just like if you draft for position rather than the best player available. Ideally, both occur. Sometimes, perhaps the positional value is better than having the absolute best player, but that only happens if that player in that position is still pretty damn close to being as good as the best player.
I guess what I am saying is that it would be perfectly fine for the Leafs to trade a guy like Nylander if it means they are getting a great return, it balances the team, and it makes the team better (or at least as good as it is now). It doesn't if you are trading Nylander for a guy like Manson who is significantly worse than Nylander and will likely never be able to live up to the expectations of providing an impact that rivals Nylander's... That is how you get the second coming of Hall for Larsson. And from a lot of the "suggestions" and "proposals" I have been seeing the past couple of days, there are a lot of Leafs fans who are comfortable with that happening for the sake of "balance"... Probably the same people who will point to that deal as the reason Dubas would get fired if it failed to work.