Elliotte Friedman Ties Maple Leafs to Top Deadline Name
The Maple Leafs have some big decision to make with the deadline looming. Either they take their chances with their current group, or they add a big-name player.
While it looks like they are leaning towards the former, Elliotte Friedman on his 32 Thoughts podcast revealed that the Leafs have been taking a hard look at San Jose Sharks powerful scoring winger Timo Meier.
Meier is a restricted free agent with a qualifying offer of $10-million. Friedman insists that the Leafs wouldn't necessarily be looking at him as a rental, but they would make the acquisition and worry about it in the summer.
«There are teams out there who think that Toronto at the very least has considered do we go get Meier for this run and then sort it out later financially
We bring him in, we see how this goes, see who has a good playoff and who doesn't, and we figure this out in June.
Now if you trade for Meier it doesn't mean he's a rentalIn Toronto I don't think he's a long term guy either
The only way I think you consider that if you're Toronto is that at the very least if you can't keep him you're flipping him for what you traded (at draft) to recoup some picks or assets
There's two reasons Toronto is considering this, number 1 because Dubas is in his final yearnumber 2 Toronto has a really good team»
We bring him in, we see how this goes, see who has a good playoff and who doesn't, and we figure this out in June.
Now if you trade for Meier it doesn't mean he's a rentalIn Toronto I don't think he's a long term guy either
The only way I think you consider that if you're Toronto is that at the very least if you can't keep him you're flipping him for what you traded (at draft) to recoup some picks or assets
There's two reasons Toronto is considering this, number 1 because Dubas is in his final yearnumber 2 Toronto has a really good team»
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