NHL Rumors: How deep do the Toronto Maple Leafs go at the deadline? Out of season?

How deep do the Toronto Maple Leafs go at the NHL trade deadline and during the off-season?

The Daily Faceoff (youtube): David Pagnotta on the Sheet with Jeff Marek, talking about the Toronto Maple Leafs and what may be in store for them at the trade deadline and next season. When will the Maple Leafs approach Morgan Rielly? Did they keep Oliver Ekman-Larsson? Do they re-sign Bobby McMann or trade him? How else could they trade?

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Marek: “William Nylander, we should talk to us, not practice with the Swedes. We are very suspicious.”

Pagnotta: “It’s wrong.”

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Marek: “No, it’s not right. I mean, to your point and about Josh Morrissey, like, any injury in the Olympics to their big guys, that’s great, I mean, I don’t think the Maple Leafs are a playoff contender. I just think it’s too far back, too many teams. Same thing with the Florida Panthers. But anywhere Brad’s hurt guys, any big injury to Brad here. He’s going to do it.”

However, how deep, like, we’ve heard, like, a lot of words like, how deep do you think this can go? As I have trouble believing that the parent company wants to lay off so much here. “

Pagnotta: “No, I agree with you on that.

And I don’t think, I think they’re going to have an interview with Morgan Rielly. I don’t think it will be now. I could be wrong. I don’t think it will be now. I think at the end of the season they’re going to go back to Morgan Riley and say, ‘We’ve got to do something bold here, you might consider moving.

You have every no-trade or no-move, whatever it is. You know, you can control, basically. I think that’s something that will eventually happen if they miss the playoffs, and that could happen in the summer. And he can control it, he controls it. So they can ask him, and he might say no. And I believe they had a loose conversation at the end of last season about it. It obviously didn’t lead to anything other than him staying and trying to build on his training from last season.

But I think they will look at the number, the number of different options. You know, I think that, you know, groups start to wander (Ekman-Larsson). I don’t know how much the Leafs want to eat to do that. He has been their best defender this season. But if someone is willing to pay a premium, I think they consider it.

I think there will be other players as well. Like they have to make a decision. I think first of Bobby McMann. Does five times five make sense to hold onto him, and do they want to do that versus trying to get the property back? Could they be a first round pick and maybe something else for him, you know, out there? But the options are somewhat limited. So there’s that.

I think Simon Benoit is going to be someone that other teams are going to be interested in, and, you know, have a conversation with. And I think (GM Brad Treliving) will continue to hang some of the pieces he’s done before, be it (Brandon) Carlo, Max Domi, Matias Maccelli and so on. I think they’re going to have some, some tweaking that needs to be done with this program.

Because remember, and I think Dakota Joshua, the expectation is that he will come back after the Olympics. So they’re going to fill in some holes with some of their guys, who are a little underwhelmed.

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But then, you know, they’re going to have to think seriously about kind of adding to this roster a little bit going into next season, or, I’m sorry, going into the summer to make some really big changes next season.”

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