The Toronto Maple Leafs had a decent Trade Deadline by anyone’s standards.
While their opponents paid heavily to add depth pieces, the Toronto Maple Leafs added two pieces to their blue-line.
Mark Giordano is by far the best defenseman who changed teams, while Ilya Lyubushkin, is younger, cheaper, better and cost less to acquire than Josh Manson (Col) or Ben Chiarot (FLA).
Even their most ridiculous critic couldn’t say much bad about the Leafs adding better defenders than their rivals while paying less to do so.
The only non-seller who did better than the Leafs was the Panthers who added Claude Giroux, the best player available, at least by any statistical analysis of how any of the players have played this season to date.