No. 3: Tyler Toffoli
Montreal and Toronto rarely make trades, but Montreal is such a tire-fire right now, that they may consider it.
After making it to the Stanley Cup Finals, the Canadiens have been the worst team in the NHL. As a Toronto Maple Leafs fan it’s awesome to see, but it feels like the team sold their soul to the devil to make it to the Finals last year.
They have a ton of question-marks for next season and with new management, it feels like the team is about to start a rebuild. As a result, any asset they currently have should be traded to help speed up the rebuilding process.
One of those players who could be traded is Tyler Toffoli.
Toffoli is a (SCARBOROUGH!!!!!), ON native in his second of a four-year $4.25M AAV contract. He’s underperformed this year, but has four career 20-plus goal seasons and would be a good fit for the future in Toronto.
He’s traditionally a right-winger, but last season Toffoli scored 28 goals in 56 games playing a lot on the left-wing. If he could do that on his off-wing, paired beside Jesperi Kotkaniemi, imagine what he could do with either a combination of Auston Matthews/Mitch Marner or John Tavares/William Nylander?
With two years at $4.25M, Toffoli’s contract is a manageable asset for the Leafs to afford, so he’d be a player that could really fit in Toronto.