32 Potential Trade Options for the Toronto Maple Leafs

Darcey Kuemper

Kuemper plays for a team that isn’t contending and which is (or should be) desperate to add young assets and draft picks.

Kuemper also happens to be one of – if not the absolute best – goalies in the NHL over the last couple of seasons.  He has another year on his contract and is much cheaper than Andersen.  He would probably be available because he plays for the NHL’s most financially unstable team and you have to think they’d jump at the chance to get  a first rounder and save some money at the same time.

The only problem with Kuemper, and the probable reason as to why he isn’t the Toronto Maple Leafs goalie right now is that he is incredibly injury prone.

Kuemper was such a sensible option for the Leafs this summer that almost everyone I talked to about the Leafs brought him up at some point.

He’s available and he’s better than what the Leafs currently have, but I wouldn’t want them to bet the season on a guy who can potentially require an MRI and an operation after an encounter with a butterfly in a lush meadow on an offday.

He is currently “week to week,” with a “lower body injury,” which only serves to remind us how pathetic it is that the NHL doesn’t release injury information.