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Leaf Rumours

Heard on radio this morning Detroit, among a # of teams have contacted Toronto re: Liles. Quite a few teams have shown interest in the veteran defenseman. Heard Nonis is looking for actual returns while other teams are only willing to pickup his contract for nothing at the moment.
 
Can the Wings absorb the contract without giving any salary?

That would be ideal -- a draft pick deal. I mentioned Flip and Clearly because they are close to Liles in salary and they are both UFA's next year.
 
I don't think the Leafs will be taking another player in return unless it's a really good fit ... as of now, the leafs have a bit of a logjam to clear with Orr, Frattin, Reimer, Gardiner, Lupul all close to return.

A prospect is more likely.
 
Meh, great puck-moving depth. Many teams would have killed to have this type of defensive depth this season.

Liles will find a new home, and that 'stupid contract' will be turned into another asset.
 
I don't see the need to dump Liles for a middling pick.

If some team's willing to offer value for him, that's a different story, but at the moment I'd rather have him and Gardiner replace Gunnarsson and Holzer in the lineup than dump him to the Dead Things for a 3rd round pick.
 
Because the cap is going down by $7 million and he makes $3.9 million for the next 4 years, meanwhile he is currently the teams #7 dman with Gardiner and Rielly not even on the team.

The real question is how can we not dump him? Its not really in the best interest of the team to keep paying $4 million to depth players.
 
Unless we get something worthwhile for him, I prefer not to deal him.

He's a very good player and we're killing his market value by sticking him with Komi in the pressbox.

Until Gardiner and Reilly are ready, there's no rush to move him.

And trading him for just a pick of prospect would be dumb. Hold him and use him in a package to land that center we need. He has definite value.
 
concussion ruined him. mayb ehe gets his mojo back but if he doesn't they are going to have a real tough time moving him as the cap gets pushed downwards.

i'd rather get out of that if possible.
 
Yeah...I'd be happy just to move the contract. That leaves us with the amnesty to get rid of Komi this year, and the possibility of saving the 2nd one should Grabovski look like this again next year.
 
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