The Toronto Maple Leafs have had the longest period as “buyers” among all Canadian teams—a statement that would have felt strange to make just ten years ago.

The NHL trade deadline is a little over a week away and the Maple Leafs seem poised to add. But without any highly sought-after roster pieces, it’s possible the Leafs dip into their prospect pool to deal for help at centre and on the blue line.

The NHL trade deadline is just around the corner. And, with that, we know you have some Maple Leafs questions and/or thoughts on your mind. We’re opening the Toronto Sun ’s Leafs mailbag and will provide answers next week before the deadline strikes on March 7 at 3 p.

It’s a week and a half until the trade deadline and coming out of the Four Nations, things have been relatively quiet after some movement before the tournament.

We’re looking only at assets the Leafs could conceivably move ahead of the March 7 trade deadline, not the ones we know aren’t going anywhere. We’ve bunched them into five tiers — from the assets that figure to have the most value (tier 1) to those with the least (tier 5).