The Case for (and against) trading Frederik Andersen

Just after the Leafs were eliminated by Columbus, Chris Johnston wrote a column where he said the Leafs were likely to trade one of the core, and he meant someone below Auston Matthews and above Kasperi Kapanen on the depth chart. Or maybe on the list of cap hits is a better descriptor.

I made a poll of the players he named, and you responded this way:

I was very struck then by how low everyone rated the idea of trading Frederik Andersen, and yet to me, out of all of those players, he seemed like the only player you really could trade and not automatically end up much worse off.