This was INEVITABLE…

This was INEVITABLE…

This was inevitable as an NHL insider has just dropped a massive Leafs trade report. And in what has been a disastrous season thus far, a new trade update has dropped revealing some very interesting information surrounding the future of a couple of players that no one expected. We’ll break that down as well as a ton of other updates, including a tidbit from Elliot Freeman on Craig Buru’s job security following what has been a wild past few days and even past few weeks of speculation about him being fired. Ton to go over on this episode, folks. Before we get into it, Darius, the Leafs are moving fast. They made more moves today. And let’s be honest, life moves fast as well, and your insurance should too. With on the-fly insurance, you can compare rates, customize your coverage, and get a quote in just minutes. It is simply the best. Yeah. And it’s 100% online, 100% secure, and the best of all, Nick, it’s 100% Canadian. So whether you’re on the go or planning ahead, protect what matters most to you with ease. Yeah. Yeah, visit on thefly insurance.com. Protection made easy. Built for life on the fly. There’ll be a link in the description and the pin comment down below. So, make sure to check that out. And thank you once again to On the Fly Insurance for sponsoring this video. Darius, a lot to go over today. And the Leafs made an insurance move earlier today getting another forward and Jacob Quillin, but we’re going to be diving into some new trade talks that have emerged here. And there’s a lot of things to go over, but let’s start with the recent report from David Pyata. Now, there’s a lot of reports from today in here. We’ve got some new stuff. There’s one from Elliot Freeman that we uh are starting to learn a lot more information about. We briefly covered in yesterday’s video and there’s just a ton of information. Stay tuned till the end of the video. But let’s start with the David Pinata report. He said that the Leafs need more cap space if they’re going to make an impact type of move, which is why Doy and Carlos names are out there. They’re going to have to get a little bit creative. So, these are the two guys we’re going to be focusing on today because at this point in time, we knew that they I mean, reports have come out they’re not willing to trade future draft capital, but they’re all they’ve also been looking for a puck mover on the back end. They’re trying to get a top six guy as well. There’s so much going on right now, but there is the futures of Carlo and Doy are clearly up in the air. Those are the two guys they’ve been shopping. If you’ve been following the channel for a while, Elliot Freeman for weeks now, months into the off seasonason, dating back ever since they acquired him really have been shopping Brandon Carlo in at least talking about shopping him in the right package. And we have another report we’ll dive into in a minute here. What are your thoughts on this? It seems like if any trade is going to happen, they’re keeping Cow and they’re keeping their prospects, but it would be player for player moves. And I also can’t really see them trading Nick Robertson at this point. He’s been one of their best forwards. And why would you do that? And what are you going to get back in return at this point? And obviously Elliot Friedman was talking about it. We’ll get to that in a second on Nick Robertson specifically, but to get to these two players, it would free up $8 million in cap space if they were to move both of them. But they both carry pretty significant cap hits for what they are at this point. And hindsight is obviously 2020 in any scenario. But looking back at the Brandon Carlo trade, they acquired him and it was like, yeah, Fraser Mitten going the other way in a first. Like that’s tough, but we’re trying to win a Stanley Cup. This guy’s 7 feet tall. He’s 500 lb. All of these things. He’s going to throw guys through the boards. This is awesome. But now you come to this season and remember through the offseason we were covering it. There were rumors and reports out there that they were shopping him and I think that they are actually trying to get JJ Purka because Buffalo wanted a right shot defenseman and not necessarily a good or a young one just a guy who shoots right who happens to be big. That’s kind of what their you know wish list was at that point. So there was a lot of rumors there and I think that’s what Brad Shiving was trying to do but ultimately they you know he ended up going to Utah. There was a better package and they got Michael Kessering instead. Now, I think that they’re still actively, you know, seeing what’s out there for Carlo, but I think his worth is dropping by the game at this point. You can see this in terms of his entire career. And this was a great find on Twitter that I saw this morning. Terms of his career, he’s hitting the least right now in his entire career. He’s not even hitting two. He’s not even getting two hits a game right now this season with the Toronto Maple Leafs. That’s why he was brought in. And when you look back at last year’s playoffs, when you look at this year, right, and we were talking about it through the summer, and of course, you want to be optimistic, and I didn’t think it was that bad, but you saw these little things in his game and playing with Morgan Riley where you’re like, they don’t really look that good defensively. What’s going on with that? So, that’s a little worrisome as well. And it’s kind of bled over into this season as well. Now, he’s not even hitting guys, right? Which is why he was brought in. And that goes back to this whole phenomenon. I don’t know what it is. certain guys coming into the Leafs and they forget how to play the way that they’ve made, you know, their career in the NHL. It’s the weirdest thing. I don’t understand. So, he hasn’t been doing that. They’re looking at him and we, you know, we’ll get into DOI in a second, too. Uh, he’s another guy that you look up and down the lineup at this point, he makes almost $4 million and you’re like, where does he fit in? They keep playing him at center. I don’t think he fits at center. Does he have an actual spot on this team? He’s been playing on the fourth line. Maybe they’re looking at shedding some cap for whatever at this point so they can go out and make another move. Yeah. And obviously you saw here, these were his hits with Boston. And then now with Toronto, it’s down to 1.680. He had a pretty good year last year hit-wise in the half season with the team. But you pair this with the new report from Freeman saying that Elliot or sorry saying that roster for roster moves would be the ones to look out for. And he mentioned some players about Brandon Carlo, Max Doi being one of the key ones. Of course, Joshua, Yarn Crook, Ben Juan Lton, and Myers and Blaze should be waved. No room for bombs. Obviously, they have had a bad year. It’s been unfortunate, but at this point, like we know how good the Brennan Carl can be. We saw it in Boston, but at the same time, this leaf team does need to shuffle things. And Max Doi on the other hand as well, like I could see them moving off of him, but it’s been bad. Like this has been a again, these are all different advanced analytic metrics. This one’s from Money Pucks or Money Puck, at least the info is, the input data. You get there at the bottom list. Shout out to Money Puck for that. But he’s been really bad this year. There’s no other way about it. But it hasn’t just been him. It’s been many of the defenseman though. Mike Morgan Riley’s having a great offensive year. It’s a bad time to trade him. You got him because you’re thinking, “Okay, we have a controllable young, fairly young, like 27 at the time, now or 28 at the time, whatever it was. Now he’s entering his prime supposedly has fallen off in the physicality department. The whole reason you got him was to provide some insurance and kind of a stay-at-home defenseman for Morgan Riley so he can go be an offensive beast. That part is working, but he hasn’t been great defensively and uh it’s been rough on that end.” Yeah, definitely. and he has this year and next year left on the deal. And it’s so funny because when he was acquired, we’re talking about all the things we’re talking about right now as positives, as good things. We were like, this makes sense for where the team is at. You’re adding a solid. And I remember watching that series against the Bruins in 2024 and I was like, man, if the Leafs had a defenseman like Carlo and then they ended up getting him the next year and I was so excited about it and I don’t know if he’s necessarily the problem, but I think at this point they’re looking at the whole roster and they’re like, we need some flexibility and we need to do something cuz clearly it’s not working. But like Elliot Freeman was alluding to, it has to be roster for roster at this point. You cannot trade Ben Danford or Eastston Cowan. You’ll be in a much worse situation if you were to do that. You can’t do it. The Leafs have no interest in doing it, which is what Freriedman said on Saturday. So, thank goodness for that. It sounds like True Living doesn’t view that as an option. So, it’s going to have to be roster for roster. And it could be a couple guys. You see the list here. I would even throw Nick Robertson in there. And I love Nick Robertson, and I always have on the channel. I’ve always defended him. I think that he’s a great player. If he went somewhere else, he probably scored 30 goals. He’s finally getting his opportunity in the top six, and he’s scoring quite a bit this year. Go figure. So, uh, he’s been really good. But I would even throw him in there in terms of just shaking things up cuz that’s where we’re headed at this point. If they lose the next couple games, you’re headed for territory where you have to do something. They’re going to make some type of panic move just to shake things up in the room. So again, I, you know, I said it in a previous video, I like the fact that they’re going through all this adversity and they’re at least talking about this stuff in October versus like April because that would be much worse, I think, if they were, you know, you could clearly see that the team just didn’t have it and, you know, you’re past the trade deadline and stuff like that. But I think they’re looking at things right now where they’re like, we need some flexibility to go out and make some moves and it could come from Brandon Carlo or Max Doi who’s another name who’s been brought up and like I mentioned, you know, he’s been on the this stat is insane from Kevin Pepetti so far this year. I mean, when you’re comparing last year to this year, feel free to pause if you want to read it, but this one’s insane to me. He has not been good this year. And Max Doi is a tricky situation. He comes up with these huge moments in the playoffs where he scores an overtime win. He scores a couple goals in the playoffs and you’re like, “This guy is built for moments like this and that’s why you want him on the team.” But then in a regular season, you’re like, where does he fit on the team? He’s not even playing wing where he should. He makes almost $4 million, right? And you battle those things, I think, as a fan. So, it’s interesting. But, um, I think they’re looking at the whole lineup right now and they’re like, who can we shed? And it might be these two guys. Yeah. I mean, Maxi, you saw him in the playoffs couple of series there. Obviously, Panthers, especially, it’s going to be to see what happens. Either way, we’ll keep you up to date. And one quick note on Burub’s future, like we mentioned, he said that his job is safe for now. He doesn’t see a firing happen, but definitely something to keep an eye out on. And I think that kind of goes to show what we’re saying today. Players, that’s what’s going to be changed first. And then beyond that, we’ll see what happens with the coaches, which is usually the opposite. But at this point, you can’t go through, at least you hope you can’t, they can’t go through another coach. That’ll wrap it up. Thank you guys for watching. See you later.

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