from Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun,

Would you trade Cody Franson and Mike Santorelli for Andy Rogers or Carter Ashton?

The Maple Leafs might have done just that on Sunday morning.

That is the challenge and the great unknown of the path the Leafs have now undertaken. There are no immediate answers, easy or otherwise. The waiting game has begun in earnest in Leaf Nation. The dismantling of the roster is a concept that rings both proactive and necessary. The reality is slightly more daunting and complicated.

The truth is, we won’t know today, next month, next year, and maybe not until 2017 if the first-round draft pick from Nashville and the prospect Brendan Leipsic will amount to anything in the National Hockey League.

That’s how it works with a prospect and what looks to be a late first-round selection from the Predators. Getting a first-rounder sounds wonderful in concept. Turning the late first-rounder into a player of consequence, that’s when the odds turn against you.

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added 9:14am, from Terry Koshan of the Toronto Sun,