GhostofPotvin29
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bustaheims said:Nik the Trik said:That sort of depends on what value the Leafs actually got though. If it's roughly similar to what they got for Reimer last year, sure. If it's less, then I think that keeping Bernier around in the event Andersen does poorly or even just only starts 35-45 pre-deadline games(which seems fairly likely regardless) then 20-25 good pre-deadline starts by Bernier could make him a slightly more valuable commodity at the deadline.
Sure, but, it's not exactly the same trade now is it would be then. In addition to whatever asset the Leafs got for Bernier, they also received the full $4.15M in cap space (minus whatever a backup goalie ends up costing), whereas, at the deadline, they'd only get the pro-rated value of that. Moving that cap value could be enough for them to avoid carry-over issues next season (depending on the Cowen situation). Trading him now potentially saves them ~$2M against the cap in 17/18. To me, that's more than enough to make up the difference between the pick they got now and what they might have been able to get at the deadline.
I really don't know that even if he performed well there would be much of a market for him at the deadline to get a much better return. There aren't a whole lot of goaltending vacancies right now and I don't see that changing significantly by the deadline.