TOR OTT LA 3-way Marleau trade

Created by: soft_dump_in_the_corner

Team: 2019-20 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 9, 2019

Published: Jun. 9, 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

Shuffling around players after July 1st bonuses are handed out.

TO LA:
Marleau (TOR)

TO OTT:
Kovalchuk (LA)

TO TOR:
MacArthur (OTT)

LA gets a contract (Marleau) that ends after this season - they can either keep him for the year (and troll San Jose when he retires a King) or flip him to a contender at the deadline after the December portion of his bonus pays out for one more shot at the Cup. Meanwhile they get a similar contract with a longer term (Kovalchuk) off the books.
Ottawa gets a big name (Kovalchuk) and $6M closer to the cap floor while only paying $700,000 in actual salary after July 1st, and a higher cap hit next year ($6.25M) than actual salary ($4.25M). If Kovalchuk turns it around, he can be flipped to a contender for assets next year. Granted MacArthur is going to be permanently on IR, but remember the situation with Columbus and Horton's contract. I don't really trust that Melnyk would have spent the money at the time of signing to insure a middle-six contract. Even if it is insured, I'd assume it's only partially so and OTT is still paying out a percentage of the contract.
TOR adds another LTIR player to the display case and clears out cap space.
Toby Reider, Jesse Puljujarvi and Jason Spezza are all next up in the Tyler Ennis Memorial Reclamation Project slots.

Contract amounts are per Evolving Wild's projections, with the exception of Reider taking slightly more of a cut on a "show me" deal and Ennis taking a bit less to stick with TOR's medical staff for another year.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Kapanen, Kasperi	2	$2,700,000
Marner, Mitchell	8	$9,716,000
Puljujärvi, Jesse	2	$1,393,000
Rieder, Tobias	1	$1,075,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Spezza, Jason		1	$1,650,000
Ennis, Tyler		1	$1,250,000

Trades

TOR

LAK

Marleau, Patrick

TOR

MacArthur, Clarke

OTT

CAR

Johnsson, Andreas [RFA Rights]
Kadri, Nazem
2019 2nd round pick (TOR)

TOR

Miller, Colin

VGK

Bracco, Jeremy

TOR

Puljujärvi, Jesse [RFA Rights]
Rieder, Tobias [RFA Rights]

EDM

Brown, Connor
2019 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	$83,000,000	$82,452,032	$0	$0	$547,968

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Kapanen, Kasperi $2,700,000$2,700,000 RW UFA - 3	Matthews, Auston $11,634,000$11,634,000 C UFA - 5	Nylander, William $6,962,366$6,962,366 RW UFA - 5
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 $9,716,000$9,716,000 RW UFA - 6
Rieder, Tobias $1,075,000$1,075,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Spezza, Jason $1,650,000$1,650,000 C, RW UFA - 1	Puljujärvi, Jesse $1,393,000$1,393,000 RW UFA
Ennis, Tyler $1,250,000$1,250,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Gauthier, Frédérik $675,000$675,000 C UFA - 1	Moore, Trevor $775,000$775,000 LW, RW UFA - 2
Petan, Nicolas $775,000$775,000 C, LW, RW UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Rielly, Morgan $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD UFA - 3	Hamilton, Dougie $5,750,000$5,750,000 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	Miller, Colin $3,875,000$3,875,000 RD UFA - 3	Sparks, Garret $750,000$750,000 G UFA - 1
Dermott, Travis $863,333$863,333 LD/RD UFA - 1	Pysyk, Mark $2,733,333$2,733,333 RD UFA - 1
Rosén, Calle $750,000$750,000 LD UFA - 2	Holl, Justin $675,000$675,000 RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		MacArthur, Clarke $4,650,000$4,650,000 LW M-NTC UFA - 1
		Horton, Nathan $5,300,000$5,300,000 RW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Matthews, A.		Tavares, J.		Marner, M.
	Rielly, M.		Nylander, W.

Power Play 2
Rieder, T.		Spezza, J.		Puljujärvi, J.
	Ennis, T.		Hamilton, D.

Penalty Kill 1
	Kapanen, K.	Marner, M.
	Rielly, M.	Hamilton, D.

Penalty Kill 2
	Hyman, Z.	Tavares, J.
	Muzzin, J.	Miller, C.

Top Comments

Jun. 9, 2019 at 1:19 p.m.

Jay27

Joined: Feb. 2019

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The only team that actually benefits from this 3 way trade is Toronto meaning its unrealistic.

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Jun. 9, 2019 at 1:24 p.m.

Claesson4Norris

Joined: Jan. 2018

Posts: 17,067

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Ottawa declines. Ottawa wants to save money, and they do that better with Clarke than Kovy. Sens have no incentive to help the Leafs if they get nothing out of it.

Also if Mac's contract was uninsured, we'd have heard about that in 2016 when it first looked like he might have career ending injury issues. Sens wouldn't have eaten the cost for the last couple of seasons if that was the case. Pure speculation based on absolutely nothing.

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Jun. 9, 2019 at 1:29 p.m.

BlastnyFromThePastny

GloryDaysAreBack

Joined: Apr. 2018

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I love that you're pretty in tune with the actual salary VS cap hit. Any trade with Ottawa, at this point, I feel like this is vital. This 3 way works well. I would've wanted to see Kovalchuk's name in the actual trade but that could just be my OCD. First, I feel like you don't need that 2nd rounder in the Hamilton trade. Kadri and AJ are plenty. I have a hard time seeing Marner sign for less than 10.5-11.5. I don't see Edmonton parting ways with Puljujarvi unless it's for something you'd rather not pay. The ask, I believe, is still high for him. I mainly see Benning being the return for Brown on a lot of ACGMs. He's a solid, young, bottom 6 RHD. Under Babs he'd be quite effective I think. The Zaitsev trade needs a sweetener. FLA is taking on more salary but the trade makes a lot of sense (FLA is signing Pan and Bob this summer I think so that Russian community is likely growing). The Miller trade I wonder, while that really does buff up the defense, is Bracco a good enough prospect to warrant a solid Top 4 Dman? If so, it's probably better to keep him and have him up in the bottom 6 instead of Rieder. Dermott plays right side (I am pretty sure that's the case) so he can round out your top 4 or he can stay where he is and Pysyk and Benning will be your other top 6RHD. With LA, I'd trade to include Sparks and a sweetener and bring back Campbell, better G at a cheaper price.

Jun. 9, 2019 at 1:34 p.m.

palhal

LongtimeLeafsufferer

Joined: Jul. 2015

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You talk about Ottawa needing to hit the cap floor.....then you trade MacArthur. Crazy logic. Obviously you don't know the motivation of CBJ and Leafs in the Horton/Clarkson swap.
And Kovi certainly exercises his NTC and doesn't agree to trade to Ottawa.

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Jun. 9, 2019 at 1:40 p.m.

GenXHockey

Formerly Jamiepo

Joined: Jul. 2018

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Quoting: BlastnyFromThePastny

The MacArthur contract is insured.meaning Ottawa only pays out 950k.

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