Last week, I took a look at the Top 4, right-shooting defencemen who the Leafs might hope to acquire in a trade, surveying the Eastern Conference. Here’s the corresponding survey of the West.
This will give an extremely quick summary of the player, their contract, their strengths and weaknesses, my totally speculative guess at how available they ought to be, and my equally speculative guess at their price. While this will necessarily be a brief and wildly imprecise exercise, the idea is to get an idea of what’s out there.
Just once more for emphasis: this is going to involve a lot of me guessing, and it’s going to be even more speculative than the East, because I don’t follow the West much.