If Sandin signs a slightly more expensive two-year deal than Liljegren, you’re probably looking at $1.5 million to $2 million in cap space. We can bump that up to about $3.6 million if you replace Simmonds with Clifford. Trading Kerfoot and keeping Holl gives you about $3.5 million for Sandin and another forward. The league minimum forwards are pretty much interchangeable from a cap-hit perspective, so let’s not waste time worrying about whether it will be Robertson, Malgin, Gaudette, Anderson, or Clifford who will win the final spot.Ĭap Space Remaining (for Sandin + another forward): ~$3.47M. We can debate the best combinations another time. The lines are not overly important for now.
Robertson makes about $50k more than the league minimum. I’ve put him on every roster iteration as a result, but you can replace him with one of Kyle Clifford, Joey Anderson, Denis Malgin, or Adam Gaudette if you’d like. They’ll also want to have the option to call him up midseason. Maybe he doesn’t make it out of camp, but they at least want to have enough cap space to have the option in case he plays well. Toronto will want to give Nick Robertson a chance to make the team.That gives them one spare in case of an injury or illness and will let them rest players like Mark Giordano and Jake Muzzin during the odd back-to-back situation. As I see it, Kerfoot and Holl have the best odds of moving by a significant margin.Īs we examine Toronto’s cap situation, I’m making the following assumptions: Sandin could even be traded - perhaps for a good young forward with plenty of potential - but those types of deals are quite rare. Pierre Engvall and his $2.25 million cap hit could also be traded, but he just signed earlier this month and the Leafs could certainly use his skillset following the loss of Ilya Mikheyev.
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Jake Muzzin is another option, but he carries a full no-trade clause at the moment the Leafs likely would have moved him already if they were going to go down that path.
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While any player could be traded in theory, let’s not waste our time worrying about any potential blockbuster that has a 0.1% chance of happening.Īlex Kerfoot and Justin Holl, both set to hit the free agent market next offseason, are the most likely trade candidates. There is little doubt that a trade will happen prior to the start of the season it’s only a matter of when. The team is currently just about at the upper limit of the salary cap with Rasmus Sandin still to sign. The bulk of the NHL offseason is now over, but the Toronto Maple Leafs still have at least one more trade to complete.
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