With 20 days remaining to sign William Nylander to a contract, the Toronto Maple Leafs have asked teams to indicate what players they would offer for Nylander – as well as what teams would not be willing to trade, according to Elliotte Friedman of Hockey Night in Canada.
Obviously, the team would prefer to lock Nylander up to either a bridge deal or a long-term deal to get him back within their fold, but this is the first sign that Toronto and general manager Kyle Dubas have reached a point that they have to admit that the team is in trouble and their long-term plan of locking up all their restricted free agents isn’t going as planned. Nylander is rumored to be asking for as much as $8MM per season, while the team is much more interested in signing him to a more reasonable $6MM deal. So far neither side is willing to budge and with time starting to run out (he must be signed by Dec. 1 to be eligible to play this season).
If the team truly intends to trade Nylander, they should be able to bring in quite a haul for the 22-year-old goal scorer as he has the potential to be a franchise player for many teams. There have been consistent rumors coming out of both Carolina and Minnesota as Carolina has made it clear they would like a franchise-changing forward and the team has quite a bit of defensive depth, including Justin Faulk as well as younger, cheaper options such as Brett Pesce to include in a package. Minnesota is rumored to have offered defenseman Jared Spurgeon in a package as well. However, with an indication to all teams, the Maple Leafs are willing to make a deal, there could be a much larger contingent of teams willing to make offers to net a player like Nylander.
About time
Not sure why pesce even being mentioned, if you think hall for larsson was bad, this deal would be worse. Hopefully 1 of Paranyko, dumba, jones, nurse, hamilton, ..maybe manson. paraynko is ideal, i’d add if needed and take on cap, if expiring in next year or two to get it done.
How do you come up with “Paranyko”? While Parayko would be a nice addition, i don’t see a lot of options out to complete a one for one deal. Something involving Pesce or Spurgeon is likely what will come of it, if The Leafs end up trading him which I would still find quite surprising. This whole thing feels like a leak from the Leafs’ side as a negotiation tactic more than anything. We’ll see what comes of it, I guess.
Paging Stan Bowman….
lol for what. boqvist, debrincat and a Pick?
Rangers will be in on this. So will the Isles.
Manson,Fowler and Ritchie should do it. Take the Russian with you William!
I like where your heads at with this, but I think the Ducks may ask for an addition other than or with Ozyganov (not sure on spelling). I’d love to see a Nylander/Gardiner deal that brings back what you’ve set out and maybe a prospect or 2/3 round pick.
I can’t see the Ducks depleting their d core that much
Carlo, Heinen, Zboril?
LOL Connor. C’mon man………. stop joking.
Don’t honestly want Nylander in Championship City….. even if he WAS friends with NHL goal scoring leader Pastrnak back in the day.
A top 4 D, how many points did Heinen end with last year? 45, 50? And Zboril was a first round pick a couple years ago who hasn’t really flamed out but he’s just not ready yet. What about the three of them and a 2nd rounder?
And I’d say it beats Pesce/Spurgeon and a pick, and I think it’s highly unlikely Chicago would offer DeBrincat in addition to Boqvist and a high pick, so getting 3 cheap young assets would be the way to go for Toronto since they’ll have cap issues soon.
Maple Leafs might be regretting signing Tavares as a FA?