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Originally Posted by Vinny01
If Draisaitl and Matthews zero each other out the Leafs have a far more impressive group of forwards and the Blueline probably tilts to Edmonton as the Leafs do not have a Bouchard type and many of their guys are very old with little in the pipeline.
Nylander, Knies, Tavares are better than Hyman, Nuge, and Mangiapane
Goaltending is suspect for both.
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I agree. If the Leafs could find a way to add McDavid and then upgrade their top 4 d, they'd be a very difficult team to deal with. McDavid's problem, if he is asking for league max, is that very few contenders would be able to take that on, and then the team that does would have limited options in terms of upgrading.
Not too dissimilar from the problem in Edmonton, with McDavid, Draitsaitl, Bouchard and Nurse all signed for a potential $55ish million, there's not a lot of room to make upgrades elsewhere.