Damien Cox of the Toronto Star wants the Leafs to makes some trades and three Detroit players are mentioned...
Gustav Nyqvist
Nyqvist’s no-trade could make this tricky, but he has high-end skill — as he seems to show every time he plays the Leafs — and is having a nice bounce-back season in Motown. He would be a pure rental: here in the winter, gone by the summer.
Jimmy Howard
Not that Garret Sparks has proven he can’t do it, but he hasn’t proven he can, either.