Are the Toronto Maple Leaf really serious about trading Matthew Knies? It could take three pieces
Sportsnet 590 The FAN: Nick Kypreos on the Real Kyper & Bourne Show on the trade speculation around Toronto Maple Leafs forward Matthew Knies and what it may cost a little to get the Maple Leafs to maneuver to maneuver him.
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Kypreos: “So among the names that I’m hearing, Sammy, and one in every of them on my buzz is Matthew Knies. That talk of trading him has not gone away, because Brad Treliving is gone, now John Chayka is in. It’s on the market.”
Justin Bourne: “It doesn’t make sense.”
Kypreos: “To some it doesn’t. Such as you.”
Sam McKee: “To some. To some.”
Bourne: “Hello, I’m some.”
Kypreos: “To others, it does make sense.”
McKee: “I’m some’s brother.”
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Bourne: “In the event you are doing this, then you definitely’re rebuilding. You’re getting younger, right? Unless you’re just …”
Kypreos: “Not necessarily, not necessarily.”
Bourne: “They’re going to trade him for current players which are his age…”
Kypreos: “Yeah, yeah.”
Bourne: “… which are an improvement on Matthew Knies.”
Kyreos: “Well, it will depend on when you value one for one, then you definitely can have an argument that you simply’re not going to recover than Matthew Knies. But when you can turn Matthew Knies into three pieces.”
Bourne: “Oh, I don’t want your quarters for my dollar. I don’t want.”
Kypres: “I don’t think they’re quarters.”
Bourne: “So, you think that that somebody’s gonna say, “Yeah, we’ll offer you our top pair D for Matthew Knies?”
Kypreos: “Possibly, and a first-rounder and a secondary player.”
Bourne: “I want to listen to about this top pair D, who’s available.”
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Kypreos: “Listen. I don’t know what, but that’s, that’s, that’s, that’s, that’s the style of conversation that they’re having.”
Bourne: “Now, listen, I’m okay with having the conversations and seeing what teams wish to do. In fact, that’s your job because the GM to do this. However the indisputable fact that this guy’s name has been on the market because the solution to improve this team, has been shocking. Wish to me, he’s between these two cores that the Leafs appear to have without delay. And he’s going to be a 32-goal, 75-point bruiser.”
Kypreos: “Here’s, here’s what, here’s what analytics or AI could tell them. That once you’ve got an asset like Matthew Knies, and others have assets like Matthew Knies, but one has no-moves or limited no-moves, and the opposite guy is totally free, you might have the perfect probability to drive the perfect bargain or the perfect price on the market for the guy who’s completely free. And that’s Matthew Knies. You might be inviting upwards of 20 teams to bid on him, and also you’re gonna get someone which will overbid. And that’s the worth that the Leafs can get back.”
Bourne: “That is the Family Guy joke. No, it’s the boat for the mystery box. The mystery box could possibly be anything, even a ship.”
Kypreos: “Your, your close-minded on, in your, the three pieces are going to be no good in comparison with him.”
Bourne: “I don’t think, any time you make a trade of a 24-year-old prime-age player, and also you, and that’s the perfect player within the deal, you never win the trade. There are, I’m sure, exceptions to each rule.”
Kypreos: “What about a top quality player in return, a pick this draft that could possibly be 10, 11, 12, and a 3rd piece.”
Bourne: “Okay. Yes, bring me your top pair D, so I may draft …”
Kypreos: “That’s how they’re looking.”
Bourne: “(Albert) Smits, (Carson) Carels, (Chase) Reid, (Keaton) Verhoeff. Certainly one of those.”
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McKee: “What numbers did you say again?”
Bourne: “Get out of here.”
Kypreos: “It could be, in the event that they move him in the following few days, it’s to get back into that draft outside of
McKenna.”
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