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Are the Toronto Maple Leaf really serious about trading Matthew Knies? It could take three pieces<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Sportsnet 590 The FAN<\/strong><\/a>: Nick Kypreos<\/a> on the Real Kyper & Bourne Show on the trade speculation around Toronto Maple Leafs forward Matthew Knies<\/a> and what it may cost a little to get the Maple Leafs to maneuver to maneuver him.<\/p>\n

** NHLRumors.com transcription<\/em><\/p>\n

Kypreos: \u201cSo among the names that I\u2019m 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\u2019s on the market.\u201d<\/p>\n

Justin Bourne: \u201cIt doesn\u2019t make sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kypreos: \u201cTo some it doesn\u2019t. Such as you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sam McKee: \u201cTo some. To some.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bourne: \u201cHello, I\u2019m some.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kypreos: \u201cTo others, it does make sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

McKee: \u201cI\u2019m some\u2019s brother.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bourne: \u201cIn the event you are doing this, then you definitely\u2019re rebuilding. You\u2019re getting younger, right? Unless you\u2019re just \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Kypreos: \u201cNot necessarily, not necessarily.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bourne: \u201cThey\u2019re going to trade him for current players which are his age\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Kypreos: \u201cYeah, yeah.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bourne: \u201c\u2026 which are an improvement on Matthew Knies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kyreos: \u201cWell, it will depend on when you value one for one, then you definitely can have an argument that you simply\u2019re not going to recover than Matthew Knies. But when you can turn Matthew Knies into three pieces.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bourne: \u201cOh, I don\u2019t want your quarters for my dollar. I don\u2019t want.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kypres: \u201cI don\u2019t think they\u2019re quarters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bourne: \u201cSo, you think that that somebody\u2019s gonna say, \u201cYeah, we\u2019ll offer you our top pair D for Matthew Knies?\u201d<\/p>\n

Kypreos: \u201cPossibly, and a first-rounder and a secondary player.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bourne: \u201cI want to listen to about this top pair D, who\u2019s available.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kypreos: \u201cListen. I don\u2019t know what, but that\u2019s, that\u2019s, that\u2019s, that\u2019s, that\u2019s the style of conversation that they\u2019re having.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bourne: \u201cNow, 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\u2019s name has been on the market because the solution to improve this team, has been shocking. Wish to me, he\u2019s between these two cores that the Leafs appear to have without delay. And he\u2019s going to be a 32-goal, 75-point bruiser.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kypreos: \u201cHere\u2019s, here\u2019s what, here\u2019s what analytics or AI could tell them. That once you\u2019ve 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\u2019s completely free. And that\u2019s Matthew Knies. You might be inviting upwards of 20 teams to bid on him, and also you\u2019re gonna get someone which will overbid. And that\u2019s the worth that the Leafs can get back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bourne: \u201cThat is the Family Guy joke. No, it\u2019s the boat for the mystery box. The mystery box could possibly be anything, even a ship.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kypreos: \u201cYour, your close-minded on, in your, the three pieces are going to be no good in comparison with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bourne: \u201cI don\u2019t think, any time you make a trade of a 24-year-old prime-age player, and also you, and that\u2019s the perfect player within the deal, you never win the trade. There are, I\u2019m sure, exceptions to each rule.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kypreos: \u201cWhat about a top quality player in return, a pick this draft that could possibly be 10, 11, 12, and a 3rd piece.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bourne: \u201cOkay. Yes, bring me your top pair D, so I may draft \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Kypreos: \u201cThat\u2019s how they\u2019re looking.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bourne: \u201c(Albert) Smits,\u00a0 (Carson) Carels, (Chase) Reid, (Keaton) Verhoeff. Certainly one of those.\u201d<\/p>\n

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McKee: \u201cWhat numbers did you say again?\u201d<\/p>\n

Bourne: \u201cGet out of here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kypreos: \u201cIt could be, in the event that they move him in the following few days, it\u2019s to get back into that draft outside of
McKenna.\u201d<\/p>\n

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