Grading the Knies-Marchenko trade: Who won high-profile swap between Maple Leafs, Blue Jackets?

Though the offseason is reaching its end, the fallout from the 2025-26 season will continue to play out in the coming days and weeks. Connor Hellebuyck is still trying to force his way out of Winnipeg and remains suspended. The increasingly hopeless Detroit Red Wings have neither washed their hands of deposed captain Dylan Larkin nor signed their top left-shot defenseman, RFA Simon Edvinsson. One more domino did fall on Monday evening, though, when the Columbus Blue Jackets sent discontent sniper Kirill Marchenko to the Toronto Maple Leafs for burgeoning power forward Matthew Knies. Both players have long been at…