Toronto Maple Leafs Trade Rumours: Jarnkrok and Kampf Available?

The Toronto Maple Leafs have a group of young players pushing for the jobs of their older and more expensive players, so trade rumours - which happen anyways - are even more of a given than usual at this time.

The Toronto Maple Leafs have less than two weeks to sort their roster out and get cap complient for the 2024-25 season.

One way to do that, as I have been saying for at least a year, would be to ditch the ridiculous amout of money the Leafs pay to their worst players.

Ryan Reaves and David Kampf combine to be just about the most expensive fourth line combo in the NHL and to make matters worse, they are guaranteed to lose their minutes. Calle Jarnrkok remains a useful player, but he isn't one of the Leafs six best winger options anymore and he too is far too expensive for the fourth line.

Which is why Daren Dreger went on TSN radio recently and said that he thinks they could be the odd-men out when the Leafs have to make cuts and get under the cap. Unlike me, when he says his thoughts, they become rumours. But, rumours or not, the Leafs already are about a year beyond when they should have cut these guys.

Toronto Maple Leafs Trade Rumours: Jarnkrok and Kampf Available?

Kampf might cost the Leafs to get rid of, I don't know. He is the NHL's most expensive fourth liner and while he's a solid defensive player, his offensive game ruins what he is good at and prevents him from playing above the fourth line.

His salary makes playing him on the fourth line ill-advised. Who knows what will happen here, but it's going to require finding a sucker, and while there is one born every minutes, the NHL landscape has fewer obviously bad GMs than it used to.

Jarkrork should fetch them a third round though, which would be nice.

If there is a news aspect to what is so obvious that nobody really needs Darren Dreger to tell them, its that if Dreger is saying it, it's possible the Leafs are thinking it.

I have no real faith that they will make the right call and cut Kampf, Reaves, Jarkrok and Pacioretty in favor of Robertson, Cowan, Holmberg and (I guess) Lorentz, but at least this is a sign that they might.

The Leafs have an incredible roster, but their new GM has done nothing in a year and half to improve it, and every day that goes by is a further indication that the board made a mistake when they picked Shanahan over Kyle Dubas.