Being Real

Team: 2019-20 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: May 30, 2019

Published: May 30, 2019

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Before you rip the trades, please read this.

If Marner wants more than 10.5, which personally I see as unlikely, but possible... He's gotta go. Simply can not afford to pay another guy 10.5+. It sucks but it's reality. So if it comes to it, what would a realistic Marner trade look like?

Here's how I see this going, any offersheet under 10.6 per year would be matched by the Leafs, and any offersheet over that number would not be matched and the Leafs would take the 4 1st's as compensation instead. So assuming this, Any trade for Marner would have to bring back a return similar to 4 1st round picks to make sense...

Side note: I can't see any team realistically offering Marner anything over the 10.6 threshold and foregoing their next 4 years of first round picks. I think every offersheet made to Marner is for 3-5 years at 10.5 Mil. Which the Leafs would match. I say 3-5 years because if you go to 6 at 10+ it results in compensation being 4 1st rounders (see the sites awesome offersheet calculator)

And I don't see it coming to this, I think Marner will remain a Leaf with a cap hit in the 9.5-10.5 range. But never the less, here are some possible trade scenarios. Let me know what you think from the other teams perspectives. (Also assuming Marners cap hit is 11 in any trade scenario based on explanations above).

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