Sportsnet 590 The FAN: Sam McKee and Nick Kypreos discuss the potential for the Toronto Maple Leafs buying and selling captain Auston Matthews, and who may very well be the highest touchdown spot.
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McKee: “Lots of people noticed what occurred with Quinn Hughes, Kyp, and the best way it appeared on the finish with Quinn Hughes in, in Vancouver. The physique language and the American captain in a Canadian market, and all that stuff.
I imply, I might say that the largest remark I get is a number of commerce Matthews. Commerce Matthews. Commerce Matthews. And I might be mendacity to you if I did, if I advised you that isn’t a terrifying thought, from a Leaf fan perspective, from my perspective, at the very least there’s a ton of them that might wish to try this.
However do you assume that could be a dialog that they might ever have, like as quickly as this summer season?”
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Kypreos: “Sure.”
McKee: “You do?”
Kypreos: “100%. Yeah, I do. And once more, the no-movement clause come into play. So it’s a must to, it’s a must to do that collectively. That is simply not your resolution to do it.
You bought to go as much as Auston and say to Austin, now it’s been a tough yr and a half now, two years, while you consider what occurred final yr and the, the damage, or the journey to Germany, or no matter. It’s, it’s been a troublesome two years. Like he could also be able the place he’s like, he could go to the Leafs and say,it’s simply time for a change.
And I do consider that this isn’t one thing that may occur throughout this season.”
McKee: “It’s not a deadline transfer.”
Kypreos: “It is a summer season resolution. And I don’t additionally purchase that that is Auston the remainder of his profession. He’s only a 30-goal scorer, and he’s simply going to fully fall off. I don’t consider that different groups take a look at him going, that is the Austin Matthews I’m going to commerce for. I don’t need them. I don’t need him. I don’t consider in that both.”
McKee: “Okay.”
Kypreos: “And I feel that there’s, there are locations on the market, and I don’t know if you wish to maintain me to this, however…”
McKee: “I might love to carry you to one thing.”
Kypreos: “Like, Auston Matthews to the LA Kings is the play.”
McKee: “Okay, that’s the transfer.”
Kypreos: “That’s the transfer. Okay, they bought Kopitar leaving, and so they want any individual, and so they form of held out for, you already know, the watch on McDavid. And I feel if, if McDavid was LA King’s alternative in a few years, or, you already know, as early as subsequent yr, to commerce for him, probably, then Auston would fall proper beneath that.”
McKee: “Wow. So, and that’s a, I imply, the, the following query that I might ask, and a number of Leafs followers would ask, can be, does he have the same commerce worth that Quinn Hughes would?”
Kypreos: “I feel if, in the event you can’t get 4 items for Auston, it’s best to get three high quality ones for certain.”
McKee: “Okay.”
Kypreos: “Yeah, and I don’t know what meaning by way of, you want a middle icman again. I don’t know if they offer up (Quinton) Byfield, however it might be considered one of their, their their high picks up the center.”
McKee: “So it might, It might be…”
Kypreos: “I’d prefer to get a defenseman again.”
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McKee: “For certain, you’ll assume that it might be a, like gamers which might be taking part in now, versus…”
Kypreos: “I feel I’d like two gamers that might play now and a first-round decide.”
McKee: “Okay, okay that’s, that’s fascinating.”
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