DFO Rundown: The Leafs don’t need to make a splash ahead of the Trade Deadline

YAREMCHUK: There’s lot of talk that the Leafs could maybe add Mikael Granlund at the trade deadline, but I think they can aim higher than that. I think a name like Taylor Hall makes sense in Toronto. Frank, I’ll start with you. Buying or selling on the Leafs adding a significant top-six winger at the deadline?

SERAVALLI: So just from a pure money perspective, I don’t know how they could make a cap hit like that work. It would require some serious gymnastics and it would require a piece moving the other way that also would have a signiifcant caphit. So I’m going to sell on that. I think that they’re going to kick tires on a lot of different names, but I don’t think they need to reinvent the wheel. This is a talented team, a deep team. I don’t know that they need to go wild.

GREGOR: I‘m with you, Frank. I’m selling because, well, cap space number one. But number two, I think Toronto is going to do what a lot of good teams do near the trade deadline, which is add defensive depth.

Not necessarily a big, sexy name, but you look at how much of a difference Michal Kempny made for Washington a few years ago and we don’t even talk about that trade. That guy turned out to be an absolute steal for them and a huge piece of the Stanley Cup winning team. So I think Toronto will go out and look to add another defenseman.

I don’t think Travis Dermott is going to be a difference-maker come playoff time and Mikko Lehtonen doesn’t have enough experience. I think they want a veteran to round out their top-six.