Bender
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That's true every year. The cap has gone up a lot in recent years and more teams want to be buyers.
2026-27 General Trades & Signings
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dappleganger
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The year the Leafs got Tanev and OEL, there were a lot of good free agents available. I still lament the Leafs not signing Sean Walker that offseason.
That is why I'm concerned about dumping dmen for midrange draft picks.
Mid range picks are not going to return good replacement dmen.
Dump them after July 1. They can go 10% over the cap. 10% is $10.4M - which nearly pays for both Rielly & Carlo.
They'll be able to dump them to all the teams left unhitched at the UFA alter due to the shortage of dmen on the UFA market.
I wouldn't let them go until the Leafs were certain they had replacements
dappleganger
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The Leafs currently have 7 NHL D-men under team control. They could move off of one (Rielly) and be fine. If they're moving off of Carlo they must know they are or can bring in another RH-D.
Theoretically Rielly's $7.5m and Carlo's $3.45something million would equal out to Emil + New RH-D and you have the added assets of whatever the Rielly and Carlo trades net you.
Maybe they think Dylan Coghlan can bring more to the team than Carlo at a cheaper number.
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