Confirmed with Link: Pickard Being Shopped

[GardinerTheForward]

Report: Maple Leafs offering Pickard in trade talks

What kind of return should we expect?

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[rent free]

a mid or late round pick

 

[Liminality]

Not much.

 

[fahad203]

Late 4th 0r 5th

 

[ACC1224]

Nothing.
He'll be waived at the end of camp and may or may not be claimed.

 

[Mckay]

Leafs payed a 6th rounder for him, I can’t see how he’d be worth more now.

 

[selltrade]

AHL backup, 7th rounder max

 

[GardinerTheForward]

Leafs payed a 6th rounder for him, I can’t see how he’d be worth more now.

Let's broaden the question, what can we expect from each of our three backup calibre goalies. Maybe they decide to keep pickard and trade sparks or mcbackup if the return is better

 

[ottomaddox]

Before we rip him and say he's "useless" and has "no value" consider what COL thought he was: a potential NHL starter( drafted in the 2nd round).

Perhaps he could get a better return than you think...

 

[hotpaws]

He was waived last year and cleared , we then traded for him .

He's worth nothing and I have no idea why Dubas' re signed him .

 

[ottomaddox]

BTW I thought that rumours didn't come out of TOR anymore. Wasn't this an "air tight" organization?

 

[Field of Dreams]

His performance was great with the marlies. I would imagine that improved his value?

 

[Stephen]

He was waived last year and cleared , we then traded for him .

He's worth nothing and I have no idea why Dubas' re signed him .

Because it costs nothing to re-sign a guy and try to generate an asset as lowly as a 7th round pick for him. Worst case scenario is you lose him on waivers and you don't even pay his salary.

 

[BoredBrandonPridham]

Before we rip him and say he's "useless" and has "no value" consider what COL thought he was: a potential NHL starter( drafted in the 2nd round).

Perhaps he could get a better return than you think...

If the trade was based on potential, then his value hasn't increased since we got him for a 6th.

Only way Leafs would get more than what they paid is if an opportunity opened, more specifically someone needing a goalie to play this year. That could be the case... but I don't think anyone's going to pay up for potential more than the Leafs gave.

 

[leaffaninvancouver]

BTW I thought that rumours didn't come out of TOR anymore. Wasn't this an "air tight" organization?

If he's being shopped to other team they could be the ones leaking it.

 

[hotpaws]

Because it costs nothing to re-sign a guy and try to generate an asset as lowly as a 7th round pick for him. Worst case scenario is you lose him on waivers and you don't even pay his salary.

Worst case scenario is he clears and takes playing time away from developing prospects .

Also there's a large number players who are just looking for a PTO to hopefully get a contract and they have just as much/little value as Pickard who it seems we wasted a contract on .

 

[Buds17]

Teams know there's waivers involved with our backup candidates, and they know where they stand on the priority list. Will be a matter of supply and demand.

No guarantee he gets moved now, as being shopped just indicates he's the least likely of the three options to be backup. Not expecting more than either part of what was traded away for him, but that would at least be a return.

 

[Liminality]

BTW I thought that rumours didn't come out of TOR anymore. Wasn't this an "air tight" organization?

Most likely the reports are from other teams cause the Leafs have to talk to other teams when they're actively shopping him.

 

[SeaOfBlue]

A 5th. He's much better than Wedgewood and that is what he got in a trade. Plus that is more than what we paid for him, which makes sense.

I'd expect the same sort of thing out of McElhinney. Sparks I would ask for more. Maybe in either trade we would get a goalie throw in to put with Kaskisuo on the Marlies (i.e. Rittich from Calgary).

 

[Fogelhund]

Worst case scenario is he clears and takes playing time away from developing prospects .

Also there's a large number players who are just looking for a PTO to hopefully get a contract and they have just as much/little value as Pickard who it seems we wasted a contract on .

It doesn't matter if it's him, or some other goalie, we need a Marlies goalie.... So that contract spot would be taken one way or the other.

 

[Stephen]

Worst case scenario is he clears and takes playing time away from developing prospects .

Also there's a large number players who are just looking for a PTO to hopefully get a contract and they have just as much/little value as Pickard who it seems we wasted a contract on .

Who is he blocking? If there's a compelling goalie prospect coming up (I am not aware of any) they could probably dispatch Pickard to another AHL team on loan or ECHL him.

 

[BertCorbeau]

Interest will probably pick up as training camp progresses and teams can assess their goaltending situations, especially if there are injuries

I imagine they are also talking about moving Sparks and McBackup

 

[Jozay]

A 6th

 

[ottomaddox]

If he's being shopped to other team they could be the ones leaking it.

Let's agree to disagree.

We've known about a few players before, during, and after Lou's Tenure.

 

[Spirit of 67]

He's worth nothing and I have no idea why Dubas' re signed him .

And the downside to re-signing him is???