- Tyler Toffoli sera ÉCHANGÉ!!
- Selon Sportsnet..
- AYOYE...
Toffoli has two years left under contract after this one and he hardly fits in the guaranteed-to-be-traded category like, say, pending unrestricted free agent Ben Chiarot.
And considering the 29-year-old is out another six weeks, after undergoing hand surgery on Dec. 11, he’s probably under the radar as a trade target.
The thing is, even if Toffoli has only scored five goals in 29 games this season, he had 28 in 52 last year before scoring some big ones and posting 14 points in 22 playoff games. The Scarborough, Ont., native, who hoisted the Cup with the Los Angeles Kings in 2014, has a penchant for coming up clutch when it matters most.
He’s a player who helps get you to the playoffs and helps get you through them, so you have to think teams making a push for the playoffs—and Cup contenders—will be interested.
And it’s unlikely Toffoli’s $4.25-million average salary scares anyone away. There will be little concern about fitting his prorated salary under the cap by the time we get to late March, and the remaining two years are almost guaranteed to be bargains for any team that snatches him up.
That Toffoli doesn’t have any trade protection baked into his contract is a bonus for an acquiring team, as he can be moved again down the line to recoup some assets.