Moving and shaking with perf bns to spare - NYR-WPG-CAR-NJD-CHI

Team: 2018-19 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: Feb. 21, 2019

Published: Feb. 21, 2019

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Each trade needs a bit more balancing.

And next year only works if the leafs know Marleau is retiring as they'd need to shed about $4.8 off next year's cap.

Trevor Moore gets called up if a forward gets banged up.

I'm sure the leafs are more likely to stand pat than make any of these moves...but just wanted to much around to see what could be added while still leaving $3.7m in cap space on the end of year roster.

After looking at the trades...

1. Jets or Blues would be good fits for Jake...maybe remove the conditional 1st but a 2nd is more than fair value

2. A Zaitsev trade is going to be contentious no matter what team you try and deal him to on here

3. This is probably light of what NYR want for Kreider but just saw something on TSN about the leafs inquiring on him. Maybe it needs to be a Johnsson or Liljegren type addition to get Kreider...I dunno...he's more of a hinderence on next year's cap so deal makes more sense as Horton + 2nd for McQuaid maybe

4. Leafs have been scouting Carolina relentlessly this season...something must be up...this deal has been debated relentlessly on CF so just leave it as is

5. This was just to dump the $275k Hutch is taking up on this year's cap to get Toronto over the $3.7m target for cap space....more likely whatever funky math is used to calculate cap space will be enough and this deal is unnecessary. Also imagine the leafs want Hutch in the system in case of a freddy injury in the playoffs. If $$ work I'd love to add Kruger in the deal for a better pick to use as our 4C

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