Toronto Maple Leafs Roster: Our Best Guess At Where Everyone Plays Next Year
Auston Matthews
Good thing this is all digital or the amount of trees cut down to discuss where Matthews will play next season would have been very wasteful.
He’s clearly not getting traded, even if he says he wants to test free-agency.
In that case, you’d have to simultaneously try to use the next year to convince him otherwise while going all-in and try to win in his last year, since trading him will just be a waste of time.
I highly doubt that nightmare scenario is going to occur – Matthews loves it here and why wouldn’t he?
The Toronto Maple Leafs will soon make him the highest paid player in the NHL and he will once again be leading the Buds next season.
Mitch Marner
Why would the Toronto Maple Leafs ever consider trading the NHL’s third or fourth best player (depending on where you want to rank Cale Makar)?
They wouldn’t.
Marner is the face of the franchise, he’s the second best player to ever dress in the blue and white and we’ve not even seen him hit his peak yet.
120-150 points and a Stanley Cup, maybe even a scoring title. That’s his peak.
And he’s hitting it in Toronto.
Unless Colorado sends the Leafs the aforementioned Makar, that is. (They aren’t).