Originally Posted by silent_jay

I'm still puzzled by this trade as well. The only way I can see it is the Leafs will always take the foreign born player over the Canadian player. They should have off'd Toskala for a bag of pucks and some beer, or whatever they could get. They got nothing for Pogge anways, well they got a conditional 2011 draft pick, which is basically a bag of pucks and some beers.

I doubt I'll ever make sense of this deal, a rebuilding team trades a good young goalie with tons of potential, yet keeps an old goalie who is lucky to even be in the league, and definitely isn't a starter.