[3-Way Trade] Maple Leafs acquire Ryan O'Reilly, Noel Acciari, Josh Pillar; Blues acquire Adam Gaudette, Mikhail Abramov, 2023 1st-round pick, 2023 3rd-round pick, 2024 2nd-round pick; Wild acquire 2025 4th-round pick

[Coconuts]

Gotta think Boston will be looking to add, both Tampa and Toronto are gunning for them 

[stawns]

Just now, rekker said:

I'd rather have Sanheim, not a Liljigren fan

 

I like TL, he's worked hard to become a solid two way dman.  Sanheim also doesn't play for TO

[Elias Pettersson]

29 minutes ago, Gawdzukes said:

Can't see it happening but the Blues are going to out tank us if we don't.

The Blues are 9 points ahead of us.  We may only get 10-15 more points the rest of the year...

[Tinky-Winky]

2 hours ago, Alflives said:

Holy crap! The Leafs are winning the Cup this year. 

YuuuuuuuP!

[Elias Pettersson]

28 minutes ago, jyu said:

dubas is gone if they fail to get out of the first round. He might as well deplete all possible resources before he goes. 

 

[mll]

26 minutes ago, stawns said:

Depends how deep they go.  If they bow out in the first round, that's a top 16-20 pick

Playoff results only matter as from the 3rd round.  It's by point percentage in the regular season for an exit in round 1 or 2, and even after that group if they win the division but Toronto unlikely to catch Boston.

 

Lottery teams 1-16

Teams that exit in round 1 or 2 but weren't divisional winners in the regular season - 17 to possibly 28

Divisional winners in the regular season that exit in round 1 or 2 - min 24 to max 28

 

Edited February 18, 2023 by mll

[Curmudgeon]

27 minutes ago, MaxVerstappen33 said:

Boston is old and will wilt in the playoffs. 

Have you watched them this year? They are really good at hockey and are strong at every position. I think you are just wishing they are old and wilting. They are not.

[Gawdzukes]

30 minutes ago, Sharpshooter said:

Why are you concerned?  They’re not even close to tank status. 

They dumped Tarasenko and O'Reilly, looks like Barbashev too plus whatever else they might do. Honestly I thought they were only about 5 or 6 ahead but they are nine. Should be enough but it could get close though. They still have some good players but they've been pretty horrible all year and are getting worse quickly.

[Kobayashi Maru]

15 minutes ago, stawns said:

Schenn for kerfoot, with liljegren as the sweetener?  Do the Canucks have to add?

I would definitely do Schenn for Liljegren.  That would be a fantastic return.

[Coconuts]

I'll be a bit surprised if ROR doesn't circle around and go back to St. Louis imo. Dude loves being a Blue.

 

 

https://www.tsn.ca/st-louis-blues-ryan-o-reilly-trade-rumours-contract-extension-1.1911437

 

 

 

[ilduce39]

R’OR selke finalist last year but at least his stats don’t look great this year.  
 

Still… I like this move from TO. If we hadn’t face planted - before the season he was a guy I thought this team could really use.

[stawns]

21 minutes ago, rekker said:

Does he play D?

By adding two excellent defensive fwds, one of whom is a selke winner, they've shorted up their defensive game significantly.  Theoretically, they could still add a Luke schenn kind of dmsn too

[Gawdzukes]

17 minutes ago, Elias Pettersson said:

The Blues are 9 points ahead of us.  We may only get 10-15 more points the rest of the year...

Yeah I looked it up as I saw more posts. You probably saw my response but I thought they were closer.

[BigTramFan]

1 hour ago, Alflives said:

I hate the Leafs. But ROR makes their D better. He’s basically a third D man. He knows how to play without the puck. 

Is currently a -24 on the season...he's OEL!

Edited February 18, 2023 by BigTramFan

[Screw]

The arms race in the east is looking good.  Bruins, Devils, Canes you are on the clock.

[Wolfgang Durst]

That's exactly the move you'd expect from a GM being on an expiring contract. Kyle being under intense pressure to make a deep playoff run. Pretty sure that Ryan o Reilly has still this beast mentality but it's still unknown how the injury he is coming off will impact his game going forward.

[Phil_314]

Gotta wonder if Toronto realizes the writing is on the wall ($10.8 million in cap space next year, with only 12 players signed; Bunting/ Engvall/ Kampf/ ROR/ Kerfoot/ Holl all UFA, Samsonov is RFA) so they need to gear up and go for it before they need to move one of their big ticket guys.  Doubt they can even retain most of this depth, so I'm interested to see how they'll build their team in the future, but this isn't the worst move -- and I'd be scared on the PP if I knew that Marner and ROR were rushing at me and they'll generate chances despite being down a man.  

[Sharpshooter]

39 minutes ago, Gawdzukes said:

They dumped Tarasenko and O'Reilly, looks like Barbashev too plus whatever else they might do. Honestly I thought they were only about 5 or 6 ahead but they are nine. Should be enough but it could get close though. They still have some good players but they've been pretty horrible all year and are getting worse quickly.

I doubt it. Barbashev is their top line guy along with Schenn now. 

[PhillipBlunt]

Well done, Dudass. Way to address your garbage defense. Who are you? Jim Benning?

[coryberg]

2 hours ago, Nuck1991 said:

blues have 3 first round picks now

Maybe they can trade the Rangers pick (31 ATM) and the leafs pick (26 ATM) to us for the islander pick (11 ATM)... even then I don't think that's fair value for us.