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# Would you trade for Rasmus Ristolainen?
- URL: https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/would-you-trade-for-rasmus-ristolainen-mapl-leafs-perpetual-trade-rumour-poll/
- Published: 2020-06-08T13:10:56.000Z
- Updated: 2020-06-08T13:10:56.000Z
- Description: What if I offered you a really sweet deal?
- Author: Cathy Squires
- Tags: Opinion Poll, #chorus, #Import 2023-04-05 11:27

Sportsnet posted a story where the author expressed his opinion that the Leafs should trade for Rasmus Ristolainen. A cynical person might call that click bait, and it might be. But there is a constituency of fans and media who keep saying this because Risto shoots right and is a defenceman they have heard of, and Buffalo doesn’t want him. Yes, it is weird that we’re supposed to have a use for a guy Buffalo doesn’t want and who isn’t a goalie prospect. But that’s hockey, and name recognition is everything.

You can make up your own minds about how valuable Ristolainen would be to the Leafs. I don’t care about that exactly, I want to know if there is a deal that would get you to say yes to a trade.

For reference, Ristolainen turns 26 this fall, and has two more years on his six-year contract at $5.4 million in AAV. There is one signing bonus, due whenever they will be paid this summer, of $1 million, and in all other years his salary equals the AAV, making this a very unusual contract by today’s standards.

So, now to the question: What’s your threshold on this deal.

### Would you trade the following for Rasmus Ristolainen

| An NHL roster forward making over $3 million and a 4th round pick      | 197 |
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| Just the NHL player making over $3 million                             | 63  |
| An NHL roster forward making less than $3 million and a 5th round pick | 40  |
| Just the player making less than $3 million                            | 14  |
| Frederik Gauthier and a sixth-round pick                               | 89  |
| Jeremy Bracco and a seventh-round pick                                 | 120 |
| Just Bracco                                                            | 43  |
| Just a seventh-round pick                                              | 16  |
| Any of the above if the Sabres retain 50%                              | 225 |
| Sign him to more than $1 million after the Sabres buy him out          | 105 |
| Sign him to minimum salary after the Sabres buy him out                | 127 |
| None of the above                                                      | 148 |