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Franson, Santorelli to NSH for 1st round pick, Brendan Leipsic, Olli Jokinen

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Deebo

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Chris Johnston ‏@reporterchris  2m2 minutes ago
BREAKING: The #leafs have trade Cody Franson and Mike Santorelli to Nashville for first-round pick, prospects.
 
Well, I like the first round part of that. Obviously who the prospects are will decide a lot of it.
 
Depending on who the prospect are, I still think you could have gotten more if you traded the two separately. But alas, an extra 1st round pick is great to see. Now we root for Nashville to get bumped in the 1st round!
 
Bit of a stretch calling Jokinen a prospect but, you know, they say life really begins at 40.
 
Brendan Leipsic was a 3rd rounder in 2012.

Has 35 points in 47 games in the AHL this year.

2nd leading scorer on the Admirals.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
Depending on who the prospect are, I still think you could have gotten more if you traded the two separately. But alas, an extra 1st round pick is great to see. Now we root for Nashville to get bumped in the 1st round!
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I'm guessing that this tells us a little bit about the market for each guy and that we may have been overestimating what each might have fetched separately.
 
Deebo said:
Brendan Leipsic was a 3rd rounder in 2012.

Has 35 points in 47 games in the AHL this year
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Corey Pronman had him ranked as Nashville's 5th best prospect at the start of the year, and he was given an HM in his top-100 prospects list. Not gonna lie, kind of an underwhelming return. But a 1st is a 1st.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
Depending on who the prospect are, I still think you could have gotten more if you traded the two separately. But alas, an extra 1st round pick is great to see. Now we root for Nashville to get bumped in the 1st round!
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Or hire the Tanya Harding team to do their thing on the Nashville players? If she does her job(s) properly, we could have another ticket in the lottery draft!  8)
 
RedLeaf said:
Deebo said:
Jokinen has 6 points in 48 games, 6!
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Yeah. Not sure why he had to be part of the trade?
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You put him in Santo's spot and you avoid having to make any real roster change.

Also, who knows? Maybe some team suffers some injuries and makes the Leafs an offer for him at the deadline.
 
Making this move with 6 games to go before the deadline is big too. This team is significantly worse without Franson and Santorelli. Embrace the tank!
 
Franson and Santorelli are both unrestricted and the former, imo, is far worse than his numbers show. I'm happy about that 1st and didn't really expect much more.
 
Stronger Than All said:
Sounded like a good return to me.  Would you rather a 1st for franson and a 2nd for santorelli separately?
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Probably. But this trade might indicate that that might not have been in the cards.
 
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