The Past Is Irrelevant: Toronto Maple Leafs Will Trade Futures

The Toronto Maple Leafs are going to be making some trades this year.

This is an inevitability. Teams with something close to the best roster in the NHL, who have cap space trade futures for the present. That is how it works. Always has, always will. The Toronto Maple Leafs are no different.

If you suggest as much, people get mad. Of the many, many things that I write, none are so vehemently opposed as when I suggest that the Leafs should trade the future to win now. People respond by saying that the Leafs management of the past did that, that the new management has learned from their mistakes and that their philosophy is different.

It’s not.

It’s OK to Trade the Future

The problem of the Leafs…