Pierre LeBrun

Yeah, I mean, he's been scouring the market for a while.

And, you know, we've talked about Luke Shen on Insider Trading.

I think that'd be a wonderful fit to bring him back again, pending UFA.

Dougie Hamilton's a much more complicated situation.

We know that the Leafs are among the teams that are on Hamilton's approved trade list.

Where it goes from there, I'm not quite sure.

There's no way the Leafs can afford $9 million a year, which is what he makes for two and a half years.

But I know the Leafs have batted that around internally and a host of other D options.

You know, what's hard right now, not just for the Leafs, but for other teams that I've talked to all week, is they're waiting for more teams to declare themselves as sellers.

Look at the East, man.

I mean, I was looking at this because I had a note on the Florida Panthers today.

They're five out.

They're in an eight-team battle for the last two wild cards box in the East.

Like, who's announcing that they're out?

So I think everyone's trying to get, in some ways, to the Olympic break and understand where they are.

You know, I get that OEL is not long-term, if at all, not even a game.

And same for Carlo, as Dregs just told us.

But it doesn't change the fact that with the TANF situation, the Leafs, I think, have to add a piece on the back end before the deadline.

Otherwise, I don't know, A, how they make the playoffs, perhaps, or even if they make the playoffs, how they can think that they have a chance of going past a round.

I mean, I guess there is.