Is Keefe NHL ready

Created by: PuckPal

Team: 2019-20 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 28, 2019

Published: Apr. 28, 2019

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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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

So a few leaf fans including myself have been calling for changes to the coaching staff. Now i truly think it should be to the special teams coaches but it truly seems to be the case that Babcock in his Stubbornness still seems to think the leafs getting eliminated has 0% to do with him or his game plan. If this is truly how he feels and is tells Dubas and Shanahan the same maybe it's time for him and leafs to move on. If this happens is our AHL coach Sheldon Keefe the ideal replacement? In my opinion he is. When you look at his body of work over 4 years and more importantly how he has adapted to the injuries and trades that completely weakened his roster this year and still is beating teams with far greater natural talant i truly think he is the best coach for the leafs if Babcock refuses to accept his part in the issues the leafs had in the playoffs and isn't willing to adapt more to the new NHL. Also, if it very telling that the players are not really going to bat for Babcock right now but for their teammates.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Johnsson, Andreas	1	$2,850,000
Kapanen, Kasperi	2	$3,000,000
Marner, Mitchell	4	$9,316,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Chiasson, Alex		3	$2,000,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Marleau, Patrick		1	$2,000,000

Trades

TOR

Hill, Adin [RFA Rights]
2019 3rd round pick (ARI)

ARI

TOR

Kassian, Zack
Larsson, Adam
2019 2nd round pick (EDM)
2020 1st round pick (EDM)

Additional Details:

1st conditional on nylander going over 70 pts next season.

EDM

Nylander, William

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

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$82,500,000	$80,616,666	$0	$132,500	$1,883,334

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 $9,316,000$9,316,000 RW UFA - 6
Johnsson, Andreas $2,850,000$2,850,000 LW, RW UFA - 4	Matthews, Auston $11,634,000$11,634,000 C UFA - 5	Kapanen, Kasperi $3,000,000$3,000,000 RW UFA - 3
Moore, Trevor $775,000$775,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Kadri, Nazem $4,500,000$4,500,000 C M-NTC UFA - 3	Chiasson, Alex $2,000,000$2,000,000 RW UFA - 2
Marleau, Patrick $2,000,000$2,000,000	Gauthier, Frédérik $675,000$675,000 C UFA - 1
		Kassian, Zack $1,950,000$1,950,000 RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Rielly, Morgan $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD UFA - 3	Larsson, Adam $4,166,666$4,166,666 RD UFA - 2	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 $4,500,000$4,500,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 5
Sandin, Rasmus $894,167$894,167 LD UFA - 3	Dermott, Travis $863,333$863,333 LD/RD UFA - 1	Sparks, Garret $750,000$750,000 G UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Marchment, Mason $767,500$767,500 ($132,500$132K) LW, RW UFA - 1		Horton, Nathan $5,300,000$5,300,000 RW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1
Rosén, Calle $750,000$750,000 LD UFA - 2
Petan, Nicolas $775,000$775,000 C, LW, RW UFA - 2

Top Comments

Apr. 28, 2019 at 10:50 a.m.

SammyT_51

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That Edmonton trade is disgustingly bad. If we are trading Nylander to Edmonton, start with Bouchard.

Also I believe he is NHL ready.

Apr. 28, 2019 at 10:57 a.m.

PuckPal

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Quoting: SammyT_51

That Edmonton trade is disgustingly bad. If we are trading Nylander to Edmonton, start with Bouchard.

Also I believe he is NHL ready.

I was looking at more but my thought process was Laarson is a sound Top 4 RHD which costs more that LHD and Kassian is a more physical Brown. I could see it being a 2nd this year and a conditional 1st next year based off if Nylander finds his game again which i have adjusted for. But the post is more about Keefe. What do you think about him?

Apr. 28, 2019 at 11:01 a.m.

SociallyHawkward

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I don't think Edmonton will ever trade Larsson because they traded Taylor fricking hall for him. So unless someone severely overpays for Larsson they'll just stick with him.

Apr. 28, 2019 at 11:04 a.m.

PuckPal

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Quoting: Socially_Hawkward_Podcast

I don't think Edmonton will ever trade Larsson because they traded Taylor fricking hall for him. So unless someone severely overpays for Larsson they'll just stick with him.

I could see that if Cherrelli was still there but i think the Oilers know he servrely overpaid for Larsson and if they can get A skilled winger for McDavid and open roster spots for Bouchard and A Gardiner or Karlsson type puck moving dman i think they might look at it.

Apr. 28, 2019 at 11:06 a.m.

SammyT_51

GM Hockeysaurus Rex

Joined: Jul. 2016

Posts: 14,152

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Quoting: PuckPal

Still bad trade.. but thats not important. Keefe? Modern style NHL coach who can utilize and recognise who is great and who is not great and he would get the best out of almost everybody. His defensive system is much better than what we had this year and past years. More of a skating mobile defence core rather than waiting on opponent. His Dmen drive play from back end and all 5 players on ice go back, even more offensive ones.

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