Abel to Yzerman · Dec 29, 2018
Trade Them To Toronto
Damien Cox of the Toronto Star wants the Leafs to makes some trades and three Detroit players are mentioned...
Gustav Nyqvist
Nyqvist’s no-trade could make this tricky, but he has high-end skill — as he seems to show every time he plays the Leafs — and is having a nice bounce-back season in Motown. He would be a pure rental: here in the winter, gone by the summer.
Jimmy Howard
Not that Garret Sparks has proven he can’t do it, but he hasn’t proven he can, either. Goaltending insurance behind Freddie Andersen just makes sense, and Howard would be the best you could buy. The hard question would be how much to pay at the deadline for a player who may not play. No more than a second-round pick.