Reporter Says Fans Should Be Prepared for an Underwhelming Trade Deadline for the Leafs
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TJ Tucker
January 26, 2025 (11:17)
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With all the talk of the Toronto Maple Leafs landing a another centre before the trade deadline, one insider believes it will be difficult, if not impossible to do.
While this may be the team's most immediate need to prepare for a potentially longer playoff run than normal, one insider believes analysts and fans are getting way ahead of themselves.
"Almost every day in the Big Smoke, I hear rumblings about a centre the Leafs will be acquiring near the trade deadline. The question from the other side: What do they have to offer that anybody wants?"
Simmons notes the organization's lack of valuable draft picks, and even says no one really wants the prospects in the Toronto Maple Leafs' system.
"They don't have a first-round pick this year? Their best prospects - defenceman
Ben Danford, forwards
Easton Cowan and
Fraser Minten - may not be all that coveted. To pick up a
Ryan O'Reilly or a
Brock Nelson, they need to have something a rebuilding team would want. GM Brad Treliving has his work cut out for him here."
While no one believes landing a valuable center will be easy, it's hard to understand why Simmons thinks prospects like Easton Cowan and Fraser Minten wouldn't be enticing for rebuilding teams.
Treliving may have his work cut out for him, but he does hold some cards that are coveted by other NHL organizations, regardless of what Simmons has to say on the matter.
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JANVIER 26 | 2565 ANSWERS Reporter Says Fans Should Be Prepared for an Underwhelming Trade Deadline for the Leafs Do you think rebuilding teams would have interest in Toronto Maple Leafs prospects Easton Cowan and Fraser Minten? |
Yes | 2261 | 88.1 % |
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