Last offseason, very fresh off the embarrassing bounce from the playoffs before they even really began, the Leafs made an excellent trade. The Stanley Cup Final was still going on, Tampa was in the process of seeing to the Boston Bruins, and Vancouver was having the Vegas experience. The equally disgruntled Pittsburgh Penguins, who have been trying to build a competitive enough team around Sidney Crosby unsuccessfully for years, snapped up Kasperi Kapanen while the Leafs got a good draft pick, a good prospect, and freed up cap space for what was to come.
No one is unhappy with this deal.