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The Official 2026 Off-Season Thread: Revenge of the Nerds

LeafOfFaith said:
Exactly. There’s no point to deal him unless you’re actually getting something good back. Not clearing his contract to fill the space with something good from somewhere else, but actually getting a good return.
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I don’t exactly agree with this. I do think there’s inherent value in taking him out of our lineup & moving on from him, even if we don’t get much in return.

I’m just not interested in taking bad money/a shitty player back in return for him.
 
Carlo and Myers aren’t part of the top 6 today, so that’s why they gotta go. Rielly is, but dealing him has to make you a lot better, not just dumping him and not seeing what he can do under a new system.
 
I still think OEL makes the most sense to move. Age, contract, style of play, all real good, which makes it easy to keep him but teams are currently silly so you might get a fair bit over value.
 

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"It definitely sounds like, talking with people around the league, and even now, the Leafs may have something big that's cooking. Whether it happens or not, and I'm not just saying that for the sake of saying it. There are people around the league who genuinely believe the Leafs have something that's going to be a 'holy sh-t' type of scenario. I wonder if it's Hellebuyck, but I don't see the correlation. I'm trying to connect it but I honestly don't know other than what I'm sharing now"
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LeafOfFaith said:
I still think OEL makes the most sense to move. Age, contract, style of play, all real good, which makes it easy to keep him but teams are currently silly so you might get a fair bit over value.
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I hear ya cause he's old AF but I'd like to see an OEL-Raddysh pair - that could create havoc
 
I think just that he got moved from 9 to 3 on his little trade bait list, lol.

It was like, pretty recent that they were like “all GMs are pissed bc he won’t even name a price!!”
 
Capitalizing on a scarce asset that your r&d team feels is not a needle mover and that his trade value far exceeds his actual worth, is good business. No matter what lof may think.

Have to see what the trade is, but if he's moved it's gonna be a biggie you would think.
 
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