Sep 29, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min · 9 segments
In an emergency episode of the MLHS Podcast, Nick Ashbourne and Anthony Petrielli react to the Maple Leafs' blockbuster trade for Kirill Marchenko.
Anthony PetrielliHost
Nick AshbourneHostYeah, I mean, I don't think anyone could really say they saw this one coming, right? They could say that they saw this one coming.
You kind of heard tentatively over the past week They did kind of float this idea that, you know, by they, I mean like Elliott Friedman floated.
Well, Toronto has kind of been in and around on Marchenko, but yeah, you know, I didn't really put too much stock into it and I didn't think it was a direction that they were going to go.
I mean, I think the Toronto Maple Leafs are a better hockey team today than they were yesterday.
And in the process of improving, I don't think that they gave up anything too prohibitive in terms of futures.
You know, if Marchenko is as good as they think he is, you're not really going to, you know, lose sleep over a second round pick in that process.
The thing I thought and what I'm seeing so far is, and I don't know if you're seeing this a lot too, but a lot of people I think are just looking at the box score.
They're saying like, is Marcinko that much of a better player than Nyes? Because their production has been kind of similar, right? But I don't think that's really the case in terms of impact of the player.
I think that you can just look at those numbers and say, okay, Marchenko has been marginally more effective at putting up points than Nyes, but it really doesn't make that much of a difference.
And Nyes has more upside potentially, and he's going to be way cheaper, and that contract was already done.
And so why are you going to this much effort to trade a top line winner for top line winner, even if you're getting a little bit better, I think there's some notion that you could keep knives in the holster and use them to get a defenseman that you need use them to get a second line center that you need.
But I do think that we need to sit in the fact that Marchenko is a very, very good player.
Yeah, I mean, I don't think anyone could really say they saw this one coming, right? They could say that they saw this one coming.
You kind of heard tentatively over the past week They did kind of float this idea that, you know, by they, I mean like Elliott Friedman floated.
Well, Toronto has kind of been in and around on Marchenko, but yeah, you know, I didn't really put too much stock into it and I didn't think it was a direction that they were going to go.
I mean, I think the Toronto Maple Leafs are a better hockey team today than they were yesterday.
And in the process of improving, I don't think that they gave up anything too prohibitive in terms of futures.
You know, if Marchenko is as good as they think he is, you're not really going to, you know, lose sleep over a second round pick in that process.
The thing I thought and what I'm seeing so far is, and I don't know if you're seeing this a lot too, but a lot of people I think are just looking at the box score.
They're saying like, is Marcinko that much of a better player than Nyes? Because their production has been kind of similar, right? But I don't think that's really the case in terms of impact of the player.
I think that you can just look at those numbers and say, okay, Marchenko has been marginally more effective at putting up points than Nyes, but it really doesn't make that much of a difference.
And Nyes has more upside potentially, and he's going to be way cheaper, and that contract was already done.
And so why are you going to this much effort to trade a top line winner for top line winner, even if you're getting a little bit better, I think there's some notion that you could keep knives in the holster and use them to get a defenseman that you need use them to get a second line center that you need.
But I do think that we need to sit in the fact that Marchenko is a very, very good player.
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