Sabres Should Be Looking Into Trading For One Of These Maple Leafs For

The Toronto Maple Leafs are about to finish their 2025-26 training camp, and as it happens, the Maple Leafs are very deep at every position — but certainly, the most depth they’ve got is on the wings. And as we’ll exploain, we’re telling you this because the Buffalo Sabres should be looking into acquiring into one of a few veteran Leafs wingers in particular: right winger/center Calle Jarnkrok, and left-wingers David Kampf and Nick Robertson.

Let’s be clear — we’re in no way aruging Robertson, Jarnkrok and Kampf are going to be big-time difference-makers for the Sabres if Buffalo acquires one of them. These are fringe, not foundational players. But there could be something to the Sabres improving their bottom-six group of forwards, and that should get Sabres GM Kevyn Adams reaching out to Leafs counterpart Brad Treliving and inquiring about the asking price for each of the three. Indeed, the price can’t be much at all, other than the cap space Toronto is looking to build up.

Now, the Sabres don’t have any obvious holes, so a player like Jarnkrok or Robertson would have to work their way into being a Sabres regular. But they’d be closer to a bona fide opportunity in Buffalo than any of the trio woulde if they remain in Toronto. And only Kampf is signed beyond this season, so it would be a low-risk, decent-reward acquisition if the Sabres were bold enough to make it.

If the move pans out, voila — you’ve acquired a veteran for next season at a bargain price. Those are the type of moves no GM can afford to turn down. At a time in league history when it’s all but impossible to acquire high-end talent, every team should be aiming to improve its bottom-six group of forwards, and that’s what Buffalo would be doing by picking up Jarnkrok, Kampf or Robertson.

Again, you have to consider the price here if you’re a Sabres fan hearing this idea for the first time. You’re only taking the money off Toronto’s hands. And for giving the Leafs that luxury, you wind up with a player…