The Toronto Maple Leafs need to make a trade this offseason and there are three players who could be on the chopping block.
If you look at the Toronto Maple Leafs roster, it has a ton of depth. Although that’s great, there’s too much talent making too much money in the bottom-six. As such, someone needs to go.
If you think this team is trading one of Auston Matthews, Mitch Marner, John Tavares or William Nylander, think again. It’s not going to happen. Even if there’s a perfect trade involving Jack Eichel out there, this team is going down with it’s core four.
Trading one of either Tavares or Marner would solve a lot of salary cap issues, but it wouldn’t make them a better team. If the Leafs actually traded Marner, who could they get in return that would actually be as good? Sure, cap space is awesome in today’s world, but so is a top-10 player in the NHL, who is a magician with the puck.
Obviously we’d all love to some cap space so that this team can acquire another big-name defenseman or free up some money for Morgan Rielly, but it’s not going to happen anytime soon.
As we look at the roster, there are a few names that would make a ton of sense to trade this offseason.
As such, here are three Toronto Maple Leafs that are on the team’s trading block.