{"id":486354,"date":"2026-03-05T05:39:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T05:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/486354\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T05:39:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T05:39:11","slug":"nicolas-roy-asking-price-steady-before-trade-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/486354\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicolas Roy asking price steady before trade deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nhl\/toronto-maple-leafs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> are not budging on what they want in return for a potential Nicolas Roy trade.<\/p>\n<p>With the clock ticking on <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nhl\/nhl-stories\/2026-nhl-trade-deadline-tracker-following-all-deals-rumors-around-league\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Friday&#8217;s NHL trade deadline<\/a>, the Maple Leafs apparently still have the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/frank_seravalli\/status\/2029374868924309634\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">same asking price<\/a> for teams interested in acquiring the veteran 6-foot-4 center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSources say asking price for #LeafsForever C Nicolas Roy has held steady at a 1st round pick plus a prospect \u2013 and Toronto is not willing to retain salary at that price. Roy, 29, has one year left on his deal at $3 million,\u201d hockey insider Frank Seravalli of The Daily Faceoff shared via a post on X, formerly Twitter, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Edmonton Oilers are a team said to <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nhl\/nhl-stories\/connor-murphy-trade-grades-oilers-blackhawks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have interest in the Maple Leafs forward<\/a>, who has won a Stanley Cup with the Vegas Golden Knights in the 2022-23 NHL season.<\/p>\n<p>For what it&#8217;s worth, Roy is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/maple-leafs-nicolas-roy-talks-oilers-trade-rumour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">aware that his name has been floating<\/a> on trade rumors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw the rumour like everybody else. But, I mean, rumors, until they come true \u2026 really, nothing happened,\u201d Roy said before Wednesday&#8217;s game against the New Jersey Devils at Prudential Center, per Luke Fox of Sportsnet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, I wasn\u2019t expecting to be traded last summer and never heard any rumours. And then it happened. And sometimes you hear rumours, and it doesn&#8217;t happen. So, yeah, I heard, like everybody else. But I&#8217;m playing for the Leafs now, and I want to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roy was acquired by the Maple Leafs in 2025 from the Golden Knights in a one-on-one trade for Mitch Marner. He has a cap hit of $3 million for the 2026-27 season before hitting free agency in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Roy entered Wednesday with a total of 20 points in the season, including five goals and 15 assists. He started his NHL career with the Carolina Hurricanes before a six-year stint with the Golden Knights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Maple Leafs are not budging on what they want in return for a potential Nicolas Roy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5106],"tags":[5,20,5172,4,107,548,66,31,5171],"class_list":{"0":"post-486354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto-maple-leafs","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-maple-leafs","10":"tag-mapleleafs","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-nhl-rumors","13":"tag-nhl-trade-deadline","14":"tag-toronto","15":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs","16":"tag-torontomapleleafs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116174963583496555","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}