Darren Dreger

In the meantime, Tree Living Pierre continues to kick tires, as we know, like most general managers looking across the market, in fact, scouring the market for some help on that blue line.

No, thanks for the tea up there, buddy.

No, I also wonder, too.

Yeah.

You know, it gets a little bit more complicated, too, for the Maple Leafs.

Like, you know, we just saw Kiefer Sherwood from the Vancouver Canucks go to the San Jose Sharks for a couple of second-round draft picks and an American League defenseman, 25-year-old, right?

And I think that, you know, there were some mutterings by Leaf fans, well...

Kiefer Sherwood's a nice player.

Like, you know, as a rental, like, why wouldn't you give that some thought?

Well, the problem with that is, you know, again, some of the trades that were made prior to Tree Living arriving in Toronto are still haunting this team from a draft pick perspective.

So second-round picks are actually valued.

And then you do have to look at what your business is moving forward.

What do we think Bobby McMahon is going to get on a contract extension?

Four and a half, five million bucks per year?

Probably.

You know, Scott Lawton.

is playing really good right now for the Toronto Maple Leafs.

You know, what is Scott Lawton going to command?

Are you willing to pay him more than what he's getting paid right now on an annual average?

So all of that kind of stuff is factored into the pieces that are going to go out because they don't want to talk about Easton Cowan or Ben Danford in terms of trade bait.