Arzak
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I'm not buying the "We need that one missing piece of the puzzle" argument, but nothing is closed either. Two extreme options, can't vote in this one. I don't consider Leafs true contender as of yet, that being said it's so hard to predict what winning series could do for this team, it's Play off, teams win a series , players gets hot. I cheer for Leafs and Bruins for years now. Bruins are in general considered contender, yet what I saw twice was series that could go either way. Reading some of these posts it looks like Bruins won 4-0 with 20-0 goal diff.
I do think that you need to get rid of both JT and Marner, mostly due to their cap hit. Trading two players as painful as it is is imho the only way how you can shake the team effort level . You won't shake the team enough trading one core player. Without veterans like Chara,Marchand,Bergy and Krejci (twice the most points in SC, play off beast this year once again), it's way harder for young stars to focus on their game if they need to somehow mature 10-15 years to do themselves mentoring lacking out of JT . Not to mention JT's cap hit won't look better anytime soon, despite being good in playoffs, JT was never great and his style of play rarely makes your bench jump..
Nylander might be soft, figure skater and I understand argument for his trade, but he got skills to score and create scoring chances, plus reasonable contract. If there is chance he can work even better on slightly different Leafs team, you keep him.
I do think that you need to get rid of both JT and Marner, mostly due to their cap hit. Trading two players as painful as it is is imho the only way how you can shake the team effort level . You won't shake the team enough trading one core player. Without veterans like Chara,Marchand,Bergy and Krejci (twice the most points in SC, play off beast this year once again), it's way harder for young stars to focus on their game if they need to somehow mature 10-15 years to do themselves mentoring lacking out of JT . Not to mention JT's cap hit won't look better anytime soon, despite being good in playoffs, JT was never great and his style of play rarely makes your bench jump..
Nylander might be soft, figure skater and I understand argument for his trade, but he got skills to score and create scoring chances, plus reasonable contract. If there is chance he can work even better on slightly different Leafs team, you keep him.