Andersen and Pesce Trade and Bottom 6 Depth

Created by: Black_Ice_94

Team: 2020-21 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: Sep. 7, 2020

Published: Sep. 7, 2020

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McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

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UFA - 5

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Could give up a bit more for the Carolina trade (but this works off of the rumour of Pesce and Andersen on the block). TBH this isn't a trade I do if I'm Carolina but it's based on rumours and just putting feelers out there.

Then Dermott to SJS is more about offloading him on anybody with some depth D interest for a late 20s/early 30s pick because someone will take it. If not, I just get a bit more competition for my bottom pairing on D.

Could resign RFAs for a tad more, but then moving AJ's contract could compensate and then just move other players up in the lineup without giving up too much depth. Also the UFAs I've signed are supposed to be reliable and gritty, not getting all of them would be ok (still have last year's bottom line) but this is an ideal scenario.

I also like Spezza and he's great to slot in as a hybrid center/winger in the bottom 6 and a second unit powerplay, but he's slowing down. Realistically speaking I don't get all my wishes for the UFAs and he slots in on line 4 anyhow. That also works because he has good leadership and a fine 2 way game.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Dermott, Travis	1	$874,125
Gauthier, Frédérik	1	$700,000
Malgin, Denis	1	$750,000
Bracco, Jeremy	1	$850,000
Veronneau, Max	1	$700,000
Rodrigues, Evan	1	$900,000
Mikheyev, Ilya	2	$1,750,000
Foegele, Warren	3	$2,500,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Maroon, Patrick	2	$1,800,000
Brassard, Derick	2	$1,800,000
Clifford, Kyle	1	$1,250,000
Spezza, Jason	1	$700,000
DeMelo, Dylan	2	$2,250,000
Khudobin, Anton	2	$4,000,000

Trades

TOR

Foegele, Warren [RFA Rights]
Pesce, Brett

CAR

TOR

2020 2nd round pick (SJS)

SJS

Dermott, Travis

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
2020
2021
2022

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
20	$81,500,000	$78,964,917	$0	$0	$2,535,083

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Hyman, Zach $2,250,000$2,250,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 1	Matthews, Auston $11,640,250$11,640,250 C UFA - 4	Marner, Mitchell $10,903,000$10,903,000 RW UFA - 5
Johnsson, Andreas $3,400,000$3,400,000 LW, RW UFA - 3	Tavares, John $11,000,000$11,000,000 C, LW NMC UFA - 5	Robertson, Nicholas $821,667$821,667 LW, RW RFA - 4
Mikheyev, Ilya $1,750,000$1,750,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Kerfoot, Alexander $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, C, RW UFA - 3	Barabanov, Alexander $925,000$925,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Foegele, Warren $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Brassard, Derick $1,800,000$1,800,000 C, LW UFA - 1	Maroon, Patrick $1,800,000$1,800,000 LW, RW UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Rielly, Morgan $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 2	Pesce, Brett $4,025,000$4,025,000 RD UFA - 4	Khudobin, Anton $4,000,000$4,000,000 G UFA - 3
Muzzin, Jake $5,625,000$5,625,000 LD NMC UFA - 4	DeMelo, Dylan $2,250,000$2,250,000 RD UFA - 4	Campbell, Jack $1,650,000$1,650,000 G UFA - 2
Lehtonen, Mikko $925,000$925,000 LD UFA - 1	Holl, Justin $2,000,000$2,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 3

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Spezza, Jason $700,000$700,000 C, RW UFA - 1
		Engvall, Pierre $1,250,000$1,250,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
		Clifford, Kyle $1,250,000$1,250,000 LW UFA - 2
		Sandin, Rasmus $894,167$894,167 LD UFA - 2

Special Teams

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

Power Play 2
Foegele, W.		Kerfoot, A.		Barabanov, A.
	Robertson, N.		Lehtonen, M.

Penalty Kill 1
	Hyman, Z.	Marner, M.
	Muzzin, J.	Pesce, B.

Penalty Kill 2
	Mikheyev, I.	Barabanov, A.
	Holl, J.	DeMelo, D.

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Sep. 7, 2020 at 11:19 p.m.

palhal

LongtimeLeafsufferer

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Leafs take that deal all day long if only to get cap relief. But why does Carolina take on that cap and why do they need three goalies?

Sep. 7, 2020 at 11:27 p.m.

Whiskerz

SJS Tanking fan

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Sharks don't need another LD. We already have our 3 set in stone unless someone gets traded (unlikely given only one we likely wanna move is Vlasic)

FunMustBeAlways and CheechYou liked this.

Sep. 7, 2020 at 11:28 p.m.

GenXHockey

Formerly Jamiepo

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Quoting: palhal

Leafs take that deal all day long if only to get cap relief. But why does Carolina take on that cap and why do they need three goalies?

You know we could just trade all our players for nothing and get 81.5m in cap space.... I’m sure the Preds wouldn’t mind doing Matthews for Turris if you want...

That trade is bad for the leafs. Also bad for the canes cap but they could always move other players and get even more value back from this deal. You can’t move players around to get another “William” nylander.

They also aren’t moving Pesce for just Andersen either.

Sep. 7, 2020 at 11:29 p.m.

Austerity

Joined: Apr. 2019

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Quoting: palhal

Leafs take that deal all day long if only to get cap relief. But why does Carolina take on that cap and why do they need three goalies?

The Hurricanes likely make another deal involving Reimer (or less likely, Mrazek) if this deal were to take place. Could see one of Reimer or Mrazek coming to the Leafs in a trade but for this Armchair GM I'm guessing that's not what he'd shoot for.

So that partially resolves the issue of Carolina's cap, by general assumptions. I think Black Ice addressed team needs well, made reasonable offers, and the team looks better than this year's. I like it. He even overpaid on Maroon and Khudobin (imo) and still managed to have cap space left over.

This team can roll four forward lines and I think it's cool.

Sep. 7, 2020 at 11:31 p.m.

GenXHockey

Formerly Jamiepo

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Quoting: Whiskerz

Sharks don't need another LD. We already have our 3 set in stone unless someone gets traded (unlikely given only one we likely wanna move is Vlasic)

Dermott can play the right side. The fact that he may sign his QO for 875k and outplay that contract 4x is a good outlook. Not sure you would give up such a high 2nd if you aren’t filling a hole.

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