My sources are telling me the Leafs might do something....or they might not.
I believe it.
Dreaded wall - to - wall, 'round the clock coverage of trade deadline day is upon us, bags of pucks for bags of tape
With pro -scouting, professional analytical analysis, video of every player, and every single GM having a spreadsheet ranking every player in the NHL and AHL, and once you figure out if you are getting an equal or better X than you are giving up, you then have to calculate salary cap ramifications, and in the unlikely event a GM is an idiot, the odds are his staff are not all idiots, and somebody somewhere is going to stop a Courtnall for Kordik or a Gary Leeman for Gilmore trade - just not going to happen, the GM's and their assistants are smart, and to be a sucker, they do not see fit.
Andi, Bobcat, TSN 1050, Fan 590, trade deadline day is not what it once was because nobody is going to be a chimp and take a bad deal and if the GMs must win the trade, get a mathematically demonstrable fraction better than they are giving up, the deal is not getting approved.(as no GM is giving a 10th of an X less to get the deal done, lower X coming back than giving up then do not do trade, end of discussion) Trade deadline day: slow news day with endless speculation from which- if we listen to the Fan 590 or TSN 1050 we cannot escape.
Analytics, pro scouting, video, 1995 era computer spreadsheet programs and the salary cap have put an end to sucker trades, and thus, groundbreaking, newsworthy trades. Making the scouting staff assigned points match up and then combining that with salary cap ramification: that is the hard bit!