Toronto Maple Leafs: Top 3 Worst Dubas Trade Deadline Moves

The NHL Trade Deadline is only a few weeks away so let’s take a look at Kyle Dubas’ worst trades made as the Toronto Maple Leafs general manager.

Every manager is going to make a terrible trade once in a while, and the Toronto Maple Leafs brass is no different.

A trade can sometimes look bad in a few days or it has to wait a few years, but either way, it sucks to be on the wrong side of a deal. In a perfect world, you hope that both sides win, but more often than not, there’s a winner and a loser.

Over his tenure with the Leafs, Dubas has done a very good job, however the weakest part of his game is probably his trading ability. I don’t know if it’s because he’s one of the youngest executives but he hasn’t seemed to pull-off the blockbuster trade or has really rinsed a team yet.

Instead, he’s overpaid a few times for players that haven’t worked out or were just OK.

For this exercise, we’re not going to look at every trade Dubas has made as GM, but instead are going to focus on the mid-season ones around the NHL Trade Deadline. So, if you don’t see a particular trade that you think was terrible, it’s probably because it was done in the offseason or early into the season, thus not making it a deadline move.

Let’s take a look and breakdown the three worst deadline moves in the Kyle Dubas era.