“We all know [the Flames are] going to go after Gavin McKenna. I mean, that makes no sense why you try to stick around at this point, even from the Andersson standpoint, A, like the only way [the Leafs are] making that deal is to re-sign Rasmus Andersson. B, do you even have the assets to play ball for Rasmus Andersson? Right? Like we all know the teams are going to be involved, whether it’s Dallas or Vegas, or everybody should be lining up for Rasmus Andersson, a right-handed shooting defenseman. I just don’t know if the Maple Leafs have the assets to make a deal like that. On top of that, he’s on the team, Brad Treliving’s former team. We’ve had that combo a billion times. We talked about Zadorov a couple of years ago, Chris Tanev. I think you’re paying a premium on top of that because it’s Calgary.”

“You guys know how Brad Treliving operates and, you know, he makes hundreds of calls a year and that’s probably underestimating the reality of what he does. I can tell you with certainty that he thought they were close on a Rasmus Anderson trade at the trade deadline last year. And maybe it was Calgary, Craig Conroy, that decided, okay, we’re going to back away for a different, you know, whatever. I mean, they still held out hope that there was a deal that they could extend him with. They were looking at other opportunities. Didn’t love the idea of sending him to Toronto and watching him every Saturday night, blah, blah, blah, that sort of stuff. I don’t know. But I do know that they spent a lot of time on trying to acquire Anderson at that point.”

“If you couldn’t acquire Rasmus Anderson at the trade deadline, how are you getting him now? Less than 20 games into the season or, you know, at any point in the near future? Because you don’t have to be a Toronto Maple Leafs guru to look at what they don’t have. They don’t have really anything coming.”