Toronto Maple Leafs Roundtable: Best Trades of the Decade

The trade deadline is three measly days away, and the Toronto Maple Leafs find themselves right in the thick of the rumour mill.

Although, while the focus is placed primarily on what the future may hold for the Toronto Maple leafs, allow me to suggest a different option:

In order to cleanse our collective pallets from the daily grind of “sources say” tweets, I think taking a trip down memory lane would be a fulfilling exercise.

This week’s roundtable question was:

What is the Toronto Maple Leafs best trade from the last 5-10 years? 

Boy, did the EIL staff come through on this one.

The Leafs are not exactly known for their great transactions.  From Robert Luongo, to Scott Niedermeyer, to Tyler Seguin, Dougie Hamilton and Richard Rekell, the Leafs are known for the exact opposite.  But there has been some good with the bad.

Mostly bad, we’ll admit it.   Burke had at least two good trades though, and Lou and the group working before Lou was hired have been, overall, very good.

Let’s check it out.