Would This Be Legal

Created by: WookieNights

Team: 2019-20 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 16, 2019

Published: Apr. 16, 2019

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Legend

Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

I'm trying to focus on the playoffs but I just thought of this and am genuinely curious whether either of these moves would be allowed.

First -- Sign Marner at Nylander/Pastrank money for 1 year with heavy signing bonuses, then offer him a contract extension for $11M over 8 years that would kick in after Marleau's contract expires

Second -- Move Zaitsev to a team who needs picks and to hit the cap floor (OTT) and have them trade him back with 50% of his salary retained. It'd technically be two separate trades and I can't remember any trades like this in recent past so I wasn't sure what level of pick would be required or whether the league would allow it

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Marner, Mitchell	1	$7,000,000
Kapanen, Kasperi	3	$3,500,000
Johnsson, Andreas	2	$2,750,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Zaitsev, Nikita		5	$2,250,000

Trades

TOR

2019 5th round pick (OTT)

OTT

Zaitsev, Nikita

TOR

Zaitsev, N. ($2250000 retained)

OTT

2019 4th round pick (TOR)
2020 4th round pick (TOR)

Buyouts

Mikhail Grabovski: $0

Retained Salary Transactions

Phil Kessel: $1,200,000 (15%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2019
2020
2021

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$83,500,000	$76,867,199	$0	$400,000	$6,632,801

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Hyman, Zach $2,250,000$2,250,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 2	Tavares, John $11,000,000$11,000,000 C, LW NMC UFA - 6	Marner, Mitchell $7,000,000$7,000,000 RW UFA - 6
Johnsson, Andreas $2,750,000$2,750,000 LW, RW UFA - 4	Matthews, Auston $11,634,000$11,634,000 C UFA - 5	Kapanen, Kasperi $3,500,000$3,500,000 RW UFA - 3
Marleau, Patrick $700,000$700,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Kadri, Nazem $4,500,000$4,500,000 C M-NTC UFA - 3	Nylander, William $6,962,366$6,962,366 RW UFA - 5
Moore, Trevor $775,000$775,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Gauthier, Frédérik $675,000$675,000 C UFA - 1	Brown, Connor $2,100,000$2,100,000 RW, LW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Rielly, Morgan $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD UFA - 3	Dermott, Travis $863,333$863,333 LD/RD UFA - 1	Andersen, Frederik $5,000,000$5,000,000 G M-NTC UFA - 2
Muzzin, Jake $4,000,000$4,000,000 LD UFA - 1	Zaitsev, Nikita $2,250,000$2,250,000
Sandin, Rasmus $894,167$894,167 LD UFA - 3	Liljegren, Timothy $863,333$863,333 ($400,000$400K) RD RFA - 3	Sparks, Garret $750,000$750,000 G UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Holl, Justin $675,000$675,000 RD UFA - 1		Horton, Nathan $5,300,000$5,300,000 RW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1
Petan, Nicolas $775,000$775,000 C, LW, RW UFA - 2
Rosén, Calle $750,000$750,000 LD UFA - 2

Top Comments

Apr. 16, 2019 at 10:26 a.m.

aspina25

Joined: Apr. 2018

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Bridge deals typically never work out well for teams and their top players

Apr. 16, 2019 at 10:26 a.m.

RangerWall92

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This is actually very smart

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Apr. 16, 2019 at 10:28 a.m.

GenXHockey

Formerly Jamiepo

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The first move is fine but marner can not be revsigned till after the TDL. The second move with zaitsev is cap circumvention. I believe the rule is tat zaitsev can not be moved back to the leafs for 1 full year with salary retained.

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Apr. 16, 2019 at 10:28 a.m.

DirtyDangles

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Why would Marner do that when he can get $11 mil now? Why throw away $5 mil?

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Apr. 16, 2019 at 10:33 a.m.

GenXHockey

Formerly Jamiepo

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Quoting: DirtyDangles

Why would Marner do that when he can get $11 mil now? Why throw away $5 mil?

I think the leafs will negotiate him down from 11m. There is no doubt in my mind that he has a strong will to stay in Toronto. This deal could work favourably for both sides. Although I think marner May be able to make out better I. The long haul with a 6 year deal.

Maybe zaitsev could be orpik’d... I had never thought about that option.

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