Maple Leafs' potential trade of Auston Matthews to Wild has a roadblock
Toronto has plenty to still figure out.
Maple Leafs' potential trade of Auston Matthews to Wild has a roadblock originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Toronto Maple Leafs have a lot to figure out after a season that lived up to no one's expectations.
There will be some who even wonder or make rumors about an Auston Matthews trade. While certainly a longshot, it won't stop the chatter, and much of the speculation will include the Minnesota Wild . Wild GM Bill Guerin is known to love Matthews, and so it's an easy connection.
Even if that was in play, though, it'd likely be hard to make it happen. The Athletic's Wild beat writer Michael Russo explained it very simply: Minnesota just doesn't have the pieces to get a trade like that done. “I just don’t know if the Wild would have the assets to get that done, because I think any GM is going to look at the Quinn Hughes trade as sort of the template in a deal like that," Russo said.
"And the Wild could not do another, you know, Liam Öhgren, Marco Rossi, and a first—they just don’t have those assets anymore. ” MORE: Oilers might be closer to Connor McDavid nightmare than it appears Russo did add in his conversation on Sportsnet 590 The Fan that he does believe Guerin would make a run at Matthews anyway. "Well, I mean, I wouldn’t say that I’m hearing noise, but I know Bill Guerin really well, and there’s no doubt that he would be in on that if Auston ever went to market again,” Russo said.