{"id":539779,"date":"2026-04-04T04:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/539779\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T04:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:56:17","slug":"maple-leafs-trade-ask-for-matthew-knies-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/539779\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs’ Trade Ask for Matthew Knies Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The news hit Leafs Nation hard back at the trade deadline: The Toronto Maple Leafs were open to trading Matthew Knies. The 23-year-old was thought to be a pillar for the future of the team. He was signed to a six-year, $46.5 million extension before the season ($7.75M AAV). Granted, that was before this train wreck of a campaign derailed the Toronto express. <\/p>\n

By now, everyone is used to the idea that Knies, and just about anyone else, is open for bidding as the Leafs enter a new era. <\/p>\n

According to insider Nick Kypreos of Sportsnet<\/a>, former general manager Brad Treliving was asking a pretty penny to pry Knies loose from the Leafs:<\/p>\n

One NHL team source told me the Maple Leafs\u2019 ask, under Treliving, was one of three options:<\/p>\n

1. Two first-round picks and a high-end prospect.
2. One first-round pick and two high-end prospects.
3. Three high-end prospects.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kypreos says that such a blockbuster discussion came just too late in the game as the deadline approached, making it difficult to work out a deal with the teams who were involved. Kyper says the Montreal Canadiens and Chicago Blackhawks were two of those clubs. <\/p>\n

Now, as of this past week, Treliving was handed his walking papers. Whoever inherits the job will have a huge decision to make as to whether to consider revisiting some of those talks, or, as Kypreos put it\u2014and as most of us thought\u2014continue to make Knies \u201ca\u00a0big\u00a0part of a re-tool.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Leafs\u2019 cupboards are bare after years of trading away top draft picks and prospects. So dealing a highly sought-after commodity like Knies, as suggested by those potential returns listed above, would be a huge step to rectifying that. However, that sounds more like a \u201crebuild\u201d kind of deal. <\/p>\n

As we know, MLSE CEO Keith Pelley suggested that a \u201cretool\u201d is all that\u2019s needed.<\/a> <\/p>\n

What remains to be seen is what a new, incoming hockey operations boss\/GM feels is necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The news hit Leafs Nation hard back at the trade deadline: The Toronto Maple Leafs were open to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":539780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5106],"tags":[5,20,5172,797,4,66,31,5171],"class_list":{"0":"post-539779","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-matthew-knies","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-toronto","14":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs","15":"tag-torontomapleleafs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116344663909492095","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539779","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=539779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/539780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}