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Lombardi exchanged: The Leafs are they preparing the arrival of Luongo?

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The Toronto Maple Leafs come forward exchange Matthew Lombardi to the Phoenix Coyotes in exchange for a conditional draft pick.

According to Darren Dreger of TSN , he is a 4th round pick, which could be a 3rd round pick if Lombardi re-sign with the Coyotes at the end of the season. The Leafs also agree to pay the signature bonus of $ 500,000 and a portion of the annual salary of $ 3.5M contract remains of the attacker.

This transaction led to wonder if the Leafs are not doing the place on their payroll in order to bring it another big salary ... Such as Roberto Luongo for example?

Except that the Canucks would like to get your hands on a center player for Luongo, and the Leafs come to exchange a player who held this position. The young Nazem Kadri is therefore rise in the hierarchy of the team. While going to Toronto to meet the demands of Vancouver?

We'll see ...

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Good post; but there is some hidden value.

Gardiner can carry the puck; for all the "good first pass out of the zone" guys we have, every now and again we certainly miss Erhoff's ability to lug the puck. That's what value Gardiner has! Unless Barker can do it (probably why we took on the risk), don't you hate those Edler drop passes to gain the zone on the PP when a guy potentially can deliver us to the (promised) offensive zone? Perhaps a guy who can put the puck on his stick and relieve defensive pressure, or break the trap?

I'd move Lou for Gardiner and Kadri; it would also give us an ELC contract to replace Ballard whom could be moved elsewhere.

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Again fair post; maybe clarify Gardiner's role?

Hamhuis/Bieksa

Edler / Garrison

Gardiner / Tanev

Barker / Vandy

Edler / Garrison 1st PP

Gardiner / Bieksa 2knd PP

The Canucks will be just fine on the powerplay - they'd actually also be sacrificing a lot in settling for Gardiner as opposed to solid two way players like Garrison and Edler - both of those guys have much bigger guns from the blueline - and they move the puck just fine. Ehrhoff was a good role player - but had his limits for sure - personally I prefer a blueline that has guys that can play defense first, and with perhaps not as much offensive upside, but a balance that is preferable.

People are forgetting that Gardiner is a young player - he's not a seasoned NHL blueliner - he's somewhat akin to Hodgson imo - lot's of offensive upside, and potential, very hyped, but still young, not an NHL quality defensive player, very situational play last year, and apparently good numbers but when you look at the underlying numbers - not quite so impressive.

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