Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - Could The Flames And Leafs Make A BLOCKBUSTER Trade?? Ft. TSN's Darren Dreger | BB Clips

Starting point is 00:00:00 Dreggs, our buddy up the road here, Jay Rose Hill, former Leaf does the Leaf stuff with our network, put out a thing earlier this morning saying he's hearing about Rasmus Anderson that the Leafs are working to bring in Anderson. This is probably not, I'm sure this is probably to some extent. Did he hear that with his alumni jacket on when he was at the game the other night in the alumni suite, eating the free dinner and all that? There's perks. There's not many, but there are some perks for sure. Look, I mean, in the moment, I mean,

Starting point is 00:00:45 you guys know, Brad Trillian-Mong operates. And, you know, he makes hundreds of calls a year, and that's probably underestimating the reality of what he does. I can tell you with certainty that he thought they were close on Erasmus Anderson trade at the trade deadline last year. And maybe it was Calgary, Craig Conroy, that decided, okay, we're going to back away for a different, you know, whatever. I mean, they still held out hope that there was a deal that they could extend in with.

Starting point is 00:01:14 They were looking at other opportunities. Didn't love the idea of sending them to Toronto and watching them every Saturday night, blah, blah, blah, that sort of stuff. I don't know. But I do know that they spent a lot of time on trying to acquire Anderson at that point. It falls through. Now they've got a punt and they turn to the Boston Bruins and give up, you know, a decent prospect in Fraser Minton and a first-round draft pick for Brandon Carlo.

Starting point is 00:01:41 So it wouldn't surprise me at all. And anybody who spent 10 minutes watching the Maple Leafs play this year, it's not all about the defense. It's how they play as a team defensively that is no good this year, right? That's not all on the defensive core. It really isn't. But you can tell that they're playing a little bit scattered. You know, McCabe doesn't look as confident as he normally is.

Starting point is 00:02:05 no Chris Tanov, he's hurt, and no real word on when he's coming back. That's a big loss defensively. Brandon Carlo, I don't know, man. He just doesn't have it this year and on and on and on it goes. But let me ask you guys, again, if you couldn't acquire Rasmus Anderson at the trade deadline, how are you getting him now less than 20 games into the season or at any point in the near future? because you don't have to be a Toronto Maple Leafs guru to look at what they don't have. They don't have really anything coming.

Starting point is 00:02:42 They've got Ben Danvers, who's a real good young Ontario Hockey League defenseman. They've got Easton Cowan, who's a decent enough forward, and they've got a first-round draft pick in 2008. They don't have 26 and they don't have 27. Yeah. So if you're Craig Conner, you know who you're asking for? You're asking for Matthew 9. or you're asking for something like that, you know, provided that...

Starting point is 00:03:07 Does he not move the needle in a move like that? I like him. He's a good young player, but I mean, if you're Toronto now, you have to be sure, like obviously a contract extension would have to be part of it. And what does that look like from Anderson's perspective? I don't know. I mean, you've got to get into that equation. he's already turned down a deal that includes that, right?

Starting point is 00:03:34 Yeah. Easton would have to be part of it. You know, like again, I'm not being a smart ass. If it's not Matthew Nyes or a good, young, legit NHL player, what is it? And Conroy might have pressure from above to say, no. Like, we're not throwing in the towel here. It's too early to do that. We need legit NHL players if you're trading Rasmus Anderson right now.

Starting point is 00:03:58 So Easton Cowan and Ben Danford, I mean, they might be a part of a future. But if you're trading Anderson anytime soon, maybe that's the acknowledgement. Okay, we're our last place team in the national hockey league. We're pushing the 20-game plateau here. It doesn't look that it's getting better. So maybe it is time to cut bait.

Starting point is 00:04:15 I just think that's a tough sell for management to ownership for me at this stage. Yeah. Are they chasing it? Wow. This Leaves thing is with the goaltending situation. Like they're, and like you talk, If they don't win now, how are they, I mean, I guess you can always trade someone to recoup some of these assets to help out and build again. But boy, the cupboard's getting pretty bare.

Starting point is 00:04:41 Really bare. Yeah. And that's the unfortunate reality. I mean, you know, we conjure these things up as we're sitting and, you know, we're off air and we're getting ready for pregames and leaf intermissions and all of that. It does feel like if Toronto misses the playoffs this year, especially. if they miss the playoffs. So if they get punted in the first round again, that there is going to have to be some form of a boat face.

Starting point is 00:05:07 What does that look like? You know, you can't hang the blame on Mitch Minor anymore. So are you looking at Morgan Riley? Again, full trade protection. Would you do the unthinkable and look at Nylander or potentially Austin Matthews? Can't imagine, but stranger things have happened. What do you do when you're in that?

Starting point is 00:05:29 predicament. So they're not having those conversations yet, but I can't remember. I'd like to give credit to the website or the account that posted this on social media. But I think going into tonight, Toronto has a 22% chance of making the playoffs and a 1% chance of winning the Stanley Cup. Now they formulate those numbers. I don't know. But that doesn't bode well for Brad Turleming and the Leafs at this point.

Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - Could The Flames And Leafs Make A BLOCKBUSTER Trade?? Ft. TSN's Darren Dreger | BB Clips

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