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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
I was banging the drum to trade Brodie (and other guys before their final TDLs), but the bolded is such weird reasoning. You don't get nothing, you get a stretch run and hopefully a playoff run out of letting a player fulfill the entirety of their contract.
It's always nice to acquire assets, but the picks acquired at TDL rarely turn into foundational pieces.
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Treliving also wanted Brodie back and thought he would have time to get it done, but the Leafs moved too quickly. So the only complaint could be that Brodie was not high enough a priority - and getting a starting goalie shouldn't have been.
It's not like Brodie is an elite defenceman in Toronto anyway. He's largely doing the job he's paid to do - middle pairing, minutes eating. He's paid about what Tanev and Hanifin are, for roughly the same job. Treliving would have to have given him a million ro so more per year anyway.