[shawn79]

Does this mean leafs trade their 1st 2010 + 2011 + 2nd 2010 for kessel and savard?

Here are some thoughts on the upcoming free agent deadline.

Beware of National Hockey League GMs bearing gifts.

Boston’s Peter Chiarelli wants to do Marc Savard a favour and deal him to Toronto, and he wants to do the Leafs a favour by giving them an 80- or 90-point centreman for a bunch of nothing -- just to get Savard off of Boston’s books.

So, in the end, the Leafs get a first-line centreman with a $4-million cap hit for nearly free? Why does that sound too good to be true?

Coming off a concussion as serious as the one Matt Cooke inflicted on Savard, both teams will obviously have access to all of Savard’s neurological data. We don’t care what Boston’s cap situation is, when a Stanley Cup contender looks to move a $4-million point producer, who is coming off a devastating concussion, we grow suspicious.

Just saying...