If They Kept Kadri

Created by: AnalyticsGeek

Team: 2020-21 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: Dec. 8, 2020

Published: Dec. 9, 2020

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

One thing I always wonder is why the Leafs didn't try Kadri at wing after signing Tavares.

If I recall correctly, in 2017/18, the Leafs played Marner down the middle and Kadri on the wing for 40 games. During that stretch Marner scored at a 90 point pace and Kadri scored at a 40 goal pace. If they put him on LW with Tavares and Marner in 2018/19, I think he would've hit career highs again rather than slumping as the 3C which he never seemed to fit.

If the Leafs kept Kadri, I feel they would've resigned Jake Gardiner because they still needed a top 4 defenceman as a result of not getting Barrie. Prioritizing those 2 guys would've left a lack of cap space to lock Marner long term, so he would've had to take a bridge deal worth 8-9 million.

Free Agent Signings

CREATED	YEARS	CAP HIT
Kadri, Nazem	2	$4,500,000
Gardiner, Jake	3	$4,050,000
Cousins, Nick	2	$1,500,000
Marner, Mitchell	2	$8,000,000

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
2021
2022
2023

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$81,500,000	$81,368,408	$0	$0	$131,592

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Kadri, Nazem $4,500,000$4,500,000	Tavares, John $11,000,000$11,000,000 C, LW NMC UFA - 5	Marner, Mitchell $8,000,000$8,000,000
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	Nylander, William $6,962,366$6,962,366 RW UFA - 4
Mikheyev, Ilya $1,645,000$1,645,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Cousins, Nick $1,500,000$1,500,000	Barabanov, Alexander $925,000$925,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Robertson, Nicholas $821,667$821,667 LW, RW RFA - 4	Thornton, Joe $700,000$700,000 C, LW NMC UFA - 1	Spezza, Jason $700,000$700,000 C, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Muzzin, Jake $5,625,000$5,625,000 LD NMC UFA - 4	Brodie, TJ $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD/RD NMC UFA - 4	Andersen, Frederik $5,000,000$5,000,000 G M-NTC UFA - 1
Rielly, Morgan $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 2	Gardiner, Jake $4,050,000$4,050,000	Campbell, Jack $1,650,000$1,650,000 G UFA - 2
Dermott, Travis $874,125$874,125 LD/RD UFA - 1	Lehtonen, Mikko $925,000$925,000 LD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Boyd, Travis $700,000$700,000 C, RW UFA - 1		Kerfoot, Alexander $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, C, RW UFA - 3
Marincin, Martin $700,000$700,000 LD UFA - 1		Marner, Mitchell $10,903,000$10,903,000 RW UFA - 5
		Bogosian, Zach $1,000,000$1,000,000 RD NTC UFA - 1
		Holl, Justin $2,000,000$2,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 3
		Simmonds, Wayne $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW, LW NTC UFA - 1
		Engvall, Pierre $1,250,000$1,250,000 RW, LW UFA - 2

Special Teams

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

Power Play 2
Nylander, W.		Thornton, J.		Robertson, N.
	Spezza, J.		Gardiner, J.

Penalty Kill 1
	Cousins, N.	Mikheyev, I.
	Muzzin, J.	Brodie, T.

Penalty Kill 2
	Mikheyev, I.	Hyman, Z.
	Dermott, T.	Gardiner, J.

Top Comments

Dec. 9, 2020 at 3:54 p.m.

AnalyticsGeek

Banned

Joined: Sep. 2019

Posts: 5,011

Likes: 1,636

Do you guys think the Leafs should've tried Kadri on the wing?

LynseyLeafs, GMRyan and rickdabeaut liked this.

Dec. 9, 2020 at 3:55 p.m.

chungus

Joined: Aug. 2020

Posts: 2,499

Likes: 2,085

i am very confused

gardiner was a disaster, had back problems, multiple surgeries, ultimately ended up seriously struggling in carolina and is now a borderline cap dump, we should not have kept him ever

I would rather have marner for 6 years at 10.893 than 8m for 2 years

SadSensFan14, KileDoobis, RangerWall92 and 2 others liked this.

Dec. 9, 2020 at 4:00 p.m.

SadSensFan14

MOVE THE COYOTES