5 Off-Season Trade Targets that Actually Make Sense for the Toronto Maple Leafs

Ilya Sorokin

Ask any informed person to name the top-five goalies in the NHL and Ilya Sorokin will inevitably be brought up.

The 28 year-old goalie should be the Toronto Maple Leafs #1 off-season trade target after Patrick Roy benched him in the playoffs.

Sorokin is in the last year of his deal, and has already signed an extension that will start next year - an eight-year deal that pays him $8.5 million per season

The deal has a full no-movement clause.

But, Sorokin might not exactly be pumped to spend the next eight years with Patrick Roy as his coach. I have no idea how he feels, but pro athletes don't generally like sitting on the bench in the playoffs.

The one game he played was garbage, and he did not have a good season. The Islanders probably don't want to trade him, and he probably doesn't want to move.

But you have to at least try.

This is a legitimate franchise goalie in a league where that is both the most important thing to have and the hardest thing to find.

Capitalizing on another team's mistakes is pretty much the key to success in any game, and the game of being an NHL GM is no different. The Islanders, at the very least, have created a bad situation, and the Leafs could remedy it.

Now, I don't really think the Leafs should trade Mitch Marner, but if they absolutely are intent on doing so, this should be their first call.

I don't see how you could get Sorokin for less.