20 Apr 2024 19:04:12
Chicago Trades
SJones*

Toronto Trades
Kampf**
Liljegren
Akhtyomov (KHL)
1st Round Pick 2026

*Chicago retains 2.5 million of SJones remaining contract (6yrs)

**Kampf will have to waive his NMC if Chicago isn't on his list.




Rebuilding Teams like Chicago make off season trades like this for their future, Leafs did it with Phil Kessel and Chicago is in the same place as The Leafs were minus Connor Bedard.

What will The Leafs need starting next season ?
A Defenceman just like SJones imo.



Thoughts ?

1.) 21 Apr 2024
21 Apr 2024 12:38:11
Even with the retention I wouldn't feel comfortable paying Jones $7mill for the remainder of his contract when in reality he's not pushing us over the top.

2.) 22 Apr 2024
22 Apr 2024 01:40:56
Jones is exactly what the leafs need. At 7.5 he has value. Marner will most likely need to move if this goes through.

Pinball everyone craps on you, but at least your making an attempt at keeping this site alive.

3.) 22 Apr 2024
22 Apr 2024 13:29:34
It would be $7mill. And maybe he would if his contract didn't take him to 35. It's alright value for maybe another few years and that's assuming Jones starts to play better cause as it stands right now there are quite a few dman that are better than him overall. But after that we would be stuck with a $7mill anchor of a contract with no way out of it except for trading away draft picks like we had to do with Marleau and Mrazek in recent memory. So again, I'm good leaving that contract alone. And again I will say 2025 offseason is where the Leafs need to make the aggressive moves. Tavares contract is up and whether we move on from Marner or sign him is yet to be seen, but that Tavares contract being off the books opens up the door to fill out the roster with solid dmen, solid 2nd line down to the 4th line players, and with any sort of luck a true #1 goalie.