I am not condoning any of these trade proposals, savemedrzaius, but I am pretty confident that when Nylander gets traded, you are going to be disappointed in the return.
1) Toronto has little leverage here
2) Nylander is pretty one-dimensional, and wingers are bottom of the totem pole
3) his point totals have been significantly inflated by the fact that he has had the good fortune to play mostly with great line-mates, and most importantly
4) his contract demands both reduce his return value, and make it extremely difficult for other teams to take him on.
The Leafs need to take back less salary than they are trading out, otherwise what is the point? Just keep him. And in a cap world, when you need to trade down salary, you are getting less talent back. Probably a lot less.
That is why a package around Bennett makes sense for the Leafs - at least they would be getting potential in return. But the problem with a deal like that for the Flames is that they would then have cap problems (as well as trading away Bennett's potential). So to do it, the talent trade-off would have to be a pretty big win for the Flames.
And these factors would apply more of less for any trading partner that Toronto is talking to. In other words, you and Leaf nation are probably going to be very disappointed in the return.
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