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The Official Post-Bitch 2025-26 Regular Season Thread

CH1 said:
Honest question, what are the best trades the Leafs have made since then?
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Maybe the Giordano trade. He was a good soldier in Toronto and that was a cheap buy.

Sandin for a 1st was fine, but it depended on them making a good pick. So idk if you count that one.

Ryan O'Reilly as a rental was good too

But for overall value, the Jake McCabe deal >>>
 
Preston said:
Maybe the Giordano trade. He was a good soldier in Toronto and that was a cheap buy.

Sandin for a 1st was fine, but it depended on them making a good pick. So idk if you count that one.

Ryan O'Reilly as a rental was good too

But for overall value, the Jake McCabe deal >>>
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Leafs don’t make many trades outside of the deadline window
 
I like McCabe and he's been good for us, but that kind of good #2-3 for a 1st & a 2nd isn't exactly a steal value wise. Especially when he was available as a free agent 18 months prior and we didn't think he was worth 4x4 at the time.
 
I remember being OK with the Kadri deal based on the premise that was sold to us at the time that Barrie was a legit 2nd pair puck-moving RHD and Alex Kerfoot was a legit 3rd line center who was good defensively and could score 15-20 goals and 40-50 points.

Instead it turned out Kerfoot couldn't play center to save his life, was actually a 30-35 point winger and was an early prototypical example of what we'd come to know as Dubas's preferred type of depth forward: a milquetoast, average-to-undersized soft cardio merchant that generally made nothing at all happen whenever he was on the ice.

And then Barrie ended up being a guy who had to be sheltered defensively and couldn't produce at all offensively outside of being played as a #1 power-play quarterback, on a team that already had Morgan Rielly filling that role and coming off a 20 goal/72 point season.
 
With the exception of the Kadri trade, Kyle targeted the right guys usually but he paid market value for them. Rarely did he find steals or diamonds in the rough other than Bobby McMann and Mason Marchment. I'd argue that got some surplus value in the early years of the Brodie contract too.

The best thing he did was the developmental work on Mason Marchment. They saw something in him, kept him out of any league for a few months and had him work solely with their development team for several months. Special treatment that no one else gets really, they essentially taught him how to play hockey, he was a disaster. Not long after, he became a huge part of an elite Marlies team, tops in the nerdies, and the leafs gave him 4 NHL games before trading him for slop.
 
When was the last time the Leafs totally fleeced a team in a trade? (like reverse the Carlo or Kadri trades)

Wendel for Mats? Gilmour trade?
 
CH1 said:
He said trading Marchment was his biggest regret
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Woulda been a huge win for his ego if he kept him and he thrived. Marchment was entirely a Dubas project. He was 3 years away from being 3 years away from learning how to play hockey. Huge success story. And for some reason, Kyle bailed before giving him a chance when his value was arguably at his highest.
 
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Yeah, the Marchment might was disappointing, especially after doing some smart things with him. . .but then a few games, and then gone for not good returns. :(
 
Preston said:
Mckegg for Hyman
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That one gets a bit of an asterisk.

Hyman was weeks away from becoming a UFA and had made it clear to Florida that he was going to wait out the clock on their ownership of his rights and then sign with the Leafs.

So this was moreso Florida settling for something now rather than nothing in a few weeks, rather than the Leafs making a winning hockey trade for once.
 
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