The Leafs and why Colorado has rumoured interest in Marleau

Created by: CeeDee87

Team: 2019-20 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: May 13, 2019

Published: Jun. 2, 2019

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

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UFA - 5

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There is literally 1 reason why the Avs have interest in Marleau.

It's incredibly important not underestimate the importance of accounting in Colorado. Stan Kroenke is notoriously cheap with his sports franchises and Colorado is 15.5M below the cap floor right now, he'd be thrilled to add a 6.25M cap hit at a 1.25M cash cost. This is the only reason Colorado is rumoured to be interested.

I know Rantanen and others need contracts but that will all cost actual cash this is one of the easiest ways to artificially inflate their cap number.

Anyway this isn't to say that this is trade will happen or that this would be the return just want to point out the reason why this is out there from NHL "insiders".

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Marner, Mitchell	8	$9,500,000
Johnsson, Andreas	2	$2,500,000
Kapanen, Kasperi	2	$2,500,000

Trades

TOR

2021 7th round pick (COL)

COL

Marleau, Patrick
2019 4th round pick (STL)

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

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
21	$83,500,000	$80,552,199	$0	$132,500	$2,947,801

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Moore, Trevor $775,000$775,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Tavares, John $11,000,000$11,000,000 C, LW NMC UFA - 6	Marner, Mitchell $9,500,000$9,500,000 RW UFA - 6
Johnsson, Andreas $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 4	Matthews, Auston $11,634,000$11,634,000 C UFA - 5	Nylander, William $6,962,366$6,962,366 RW UFA - 5
	Kadri, Nazem $4,500,000$4,500,000 C M-NTC UFA - 3	Kapanen, Kasperi $2,500,000$2,500,000 RW UFA - 3
Mikheyev, Ilya $925,000$925,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Petan, Nicolas $775,000$775,000 C, LW, RW UFA - 2	Korshkov, Yegor $925,000$925,000 RW RFA - 2
Brown, Connor $2,100,000$2,100,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Gauthier, Frédérik $675,000$675,000 C UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Rielly, Morgan $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD UFA - 3	Kivihalme, Teemu $792,500$792,500 ($132,500$132K) LD 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	Holl, Justin $675,000$675,000 RD UFA - 1
Rosén, Calle $750,000$750,000 LD UFA - 2	Zaitsev, Nikita $4,500,000$4,500,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 5	Sparks, Garret $750,000$750,000 G UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
	Hyman, Zach $2,250,000$2,250,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 2	Horton, Nathan $5,300,000$5,300,000 RW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1
	Dermott, Travis $863,333$863,333 LD/RD UFA - 1

Top Comments

Jun. 2, 2019 at 3:13 p.m.

Boomer125

Joined: Apr. 2019

Posts: 7,163

Likes: 1,641

Well put point, IMO the trade would be a package, as Colorado has a need for a productive 2/3 C and to your point the owners group will have very little in overpayment of a UFA such as Hayes I see the Leafs and Aves being very good trade partners. I see more of a Kadri/Marleau and a pick 1st rnd 2020 for a Tyson Barrie as great value for both teams

Jun. 2, 2019 at 3:17 p.m.

deleted_1231313_32

Joined: May 2019

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Quoting: Boomer125

If the pick was a conditional 2nd --> 1st on signing / ECF I'd do it.

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