The Toronto Maple Leafs are almost certainly not going to trade William Nylander.
This is based on my assumption that current Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brad Treliving is fairly smart, and that the Leafs wouldn’t hire someone who was really dumb to be their GM.
Now, I can’t defend spending $11 million dollars of precious cap space on Max Domi, Ryan Reaves, John Klingberg and David Kampf, but I don’t think he would have landed this job if he wasn’t at least somewhat smart.
And no one who can say that would trade William Nylander when his team is in cap trouble and he (Nylander) has the best current contract on the team (as far as value per dollar goes).