DONE DEAL: Maple Leafs Blockbuster Trade Proposal

With the free agent market nearly void of options two weeks into July, the Toronto Maple Leafs and the New York Rangers find themselves in a similar position on fixing the final needs in their rosters for the 2024-25 season.

The Rangers are still looking for a bonafide top-line right winger to deploy across Chris Kreider and Mika Zibanejad. The Maple Leafs lack depth in their defense corps while having a surplus of forwards.

Coincidentally, both teams could be interested in moving a player that fits each other’s needs: right winger Mitch Marner of the Maple Leafs and right defenseman Jacob Trouba of the Rangers.

Toronto Maple Leafs' Mitch Marner and Auston Matthews

A Heavy Sports trade proposal would give New York the top-line forward they need in exchange for a defenseman that would slot nicely as a Leafs’ second-pair defenseman.

Rangers get:

– Mitch Marner

Maple Leafs get:

– Jacob Trouba

For this trade to happen, however, both players would need to accept the transaction. Marner has a full no-move clause baked into his contract. Meanwhile, Trouba has a 15-team no-trade list added to his contract, and he’d need to leave Toronto outside of it.

That said, both teams and players make for perfect salary and cap-space matches in the event of a trade. According to PuckPedia, a one-for-one trade would work for both franchises.

The Leafs would end up with $3.8 million in cap space and the Rangers would absorb the difference in the players’ salaries. New York has $5.1 million in cap space before completing the trade, more than enough to land Marner’s cap-hit difference.

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