One top NHL Insider is linking the Toronto Maple Leafs to a former member of the team, as the Leafs and Kraken make for excellent trade partners.
The Maple Leafs continue to search for ways to improve their roster, and as one NHL Insider has reported this weekend, there may be a deal on the table with the Seattle Kraken.
Per a slew of recent reports, the Maple Leafs have made winger Matias Maccelli available after the fit simply didn’t work out. Over the weekend, The Fourth Period’s David Pagnotta has suggested that with Maccelli and Max Domi on the block in Toronto, the team could look to acquire Mason Marchment in Seattle.
Toronto continues to look for a top-six addition – along with half the league – and in addition to Max Domi, whose name is still floating out there, Matias Maccelli is also available. One target may be Seattle winger Mason Marchment, who Leafs GM Brad Treliving tried to land in June before he was dealt to the Kraken.
Naturally, that deal was criticized heavily from the very beginning, and there is no revisionist history here. It was a bad deal — one of Kyle Dubas’ worst during his time in Toronto.
Since the trade, Marchment has gone on to play for the Panthers, Stars and Kraken, but a potential reunion in Toronto could make some sense, given how well Marchment would be suited for Craig Berube’s strong, physical, north-south, heavy forechecking system — much more suited than someone like Maccelli.
Marchment has tallied 13 points through 27 games thus far this season after posting 47 and 53 points in each of his last two campaigns. Meanwhile, Maccelli has produced just 9 points in 22 games.
Maybe the best course of action, as Pagnotta is suggesting, is to send Maccelli to Seattle for another piece that hasn’t quite worked out in his current setting in Marchment. Would the Kraken do a 1-for-1? I suppose we’ll have to wait and see how it all pans out.
Previously on Toronto Hockey Daily