The Toronto Maple Leafs have a core-four worth $40M but are all of these players untradeable?
The Toronto Maple Leafs have been involved in numerous trade rumors over the past few years, but there hasn’t been a huge splash, yet. With so much money tied up to their forwards, they’ve yet to break up that core and probably won’t be doing so for a while.
However, just because they don’t trade someone, doesn’t mean they are untradeable. If the right deal came across Kyle Dubas’ desk, I’m sure he would make the trade if it meant making the team better. For example, if you asked Toronto Raptors fans on July 17, 2018 who their most untradeable asset was, they’d probably say Demar Derozan.
The next day he was traded for Kawai Leonard and we all know how that turned out.
All I’m saying is that although you think a player is untouchable, he’s probably not. Even Wayne Gretzky got traded once upon a time, so anybody is possible.
So within this experiment, I’m going to break down the top 25 players based on trade value in the Toronto Maple Leafs organization and put them in different categories based on their rankings. Once again, trade value doesn’t particularly mean they’re the best player.
The player’s contract has a lot to do with this, as well. Not to give the entire article away, but at $2.25M, I would say that Zach Hyman has a higher trade value than John Tavares ($11M), even though Tavares is clearly the better player.
Not as many teams would be willing to take on Tavares’ contract compared to Hyman’s, so you actually may get more return for Hyman.
See what I’m saying here?
Let’s determine which players on the Toronto Maple Leafs roster have the best trade value.