Bringing In Marners Friend

Created by: Agent_Of_R9

Team: 2020-21 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 10, 2021

Published: Jan. 25, 2021

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

I keep hearing that the Leafs want to trade for a forward and some names include Alex Iafallo, Brendan Lemieux and Taylor Hall. A guy who came across my mind is Dylan Strome, who has surprisingly become a really good play driver at even strength plus is a local kid who's close to Mitch Marner.

Now the purpose of this move would to put the super line back together. They were unstoppable during the small sample size that they played last season, I'd imagine they can become the best line in hockey if they played full time.

I also hope reuniting Marner and Strome in a more sheltered role would help rejuvenate Marner's season. So far he's really struggled to get to his game. Just floating around in the defensive zone and not really getting involved when his team has the puck. It honestly seems like he is not able to handle the pressure of playing in Toronto.

Trades

TOR

Strome, Dylan ($1,000,000 retained)

CHI

Abruzzese, Nick [Reserve List]
2021 1st 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
2021
2022
2023

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
20	$81,500,000	$81,224,741	$0	$0	$275,259

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Matthews, Auston $11,640,250$11,640,250 C UFA - 4	Tavares, John $11,000,000$11,000,000 C, LW NMC UFA - 5	Nylander, William $6,962,366$6,962,366 RW UFA - 4
Hyman, Zach $2,250,000$2,250,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 1	Strome, Dylan $2,000,000$2,000,000 C UFA - 2	Marner, Mitchell $10,903,000$10,903,000 RW UFA - 5
	Kerfoot, Alexander $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, C, RW UFA - 3	Mikheyev, Ilya $1,645,000$1,645,000 LW, RW UFA - 2
Vesey, Jimmy $900,000$900,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Thornton, Joe $700,000$700,000 C, LW NMC UFA - 1	Spezza, Jason $700,000$700,000 C, RW UFA - 1
Engvall, Pierre $1,250,000$1,250,000 RW, LW UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Rielly, Morgan $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 2	Brodie, TJ $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD/RD NMC UFA - 4
Muzzin, Jake $5,625,000$5,625,000 LD NMC UFA - 4	Holl, Justin $2,000,000$2,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 3	Andersen, Frederik $5,000,000$5,000,000 G M-NTC UFA - 1
Dermott, Travis $874,125$874,125 LD/RD UFA - 1	Bogosian, Zach $1,000,000$1,000,000 RD NTC UFA - 1	Campbell, Jack $1,650,000$1,650,000 G UFA - 2

Taxi Squad
Simmonds, Wayne $1,500,000$1,500,000 ($425,000$425K$425,000$425K) RW, LW NTC UFA - 1
Barabanov, Alexander $925,000$925,000 ($0$0$0$0) RW, LW UFA - 1
Robertson, Nicholas $821,667$821,667 ($0$0$0$0) LW, RW RFA - 4
Sandin, Rasmus $894,167$894,167 ($0$0$0$0) LD UFA - 2
Lehtonen, Mikko $925,000$925,000 ($0$0$0$0) LD UFA - 1

Special Teams

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

Power Play 2
Spezza, J.		Strome, D.		Simmonds, W.
	Marner, M.		Bogosian, Z.

Penalty Kill 1
	Kerfoot, A.	Engvall, P.
	Muzzin, J.	Brodie, T.

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

Top Comments

Jan. 25, 2021 at 9:12 p.m.

Agent_Of_R9

Marner Enthusiast

Joined: Apr. 2019

Posts: 4,396

Likes: 996

Thoughts on my armchair team?

Jan. 25, 2021 at 9:14 p.m.

Byrr

Joined: Jul. 2019

Posts: 6,337

Likes: 3,052

I'd move Tavares to the wing long before I do Matthews.

Jan. 25, 2021 at 9:21 p.m.

RangerWall92

Joined: Nov. 2018

Posts: 3,430

Likes: 989

Rejuvenate Marner's season? Isn't he one of the top guys in scoring?

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Jan. 25, 2021 at 9:28 p.m.

TheresAlwaysNextYear

Joined: Dec. 2018

Posts: 2,627

Likes: 1,141

Marner is tied for the league lead in scoring, what is there to rejuvenate?

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Jan. 25, 2021 at 9:33 p.m.

palhal

LongtimeLeafsufferer

Joined: Jul. 2015

Posts: 60,681

Likes: 23,333

Kinda a ridiculous scenario that Marner is playing so bad, that the Leafs need Strome. Or the Marner can't handle the pressure in Toronto, so acquiring Strome eases the pressure on Marner. C'mon.
IMO the Leafs forwards are good enough, and while the trade value proposed might be fair, the Leafs. shouldn't be giving up futures for a marginal upgrade.
The Leafs are 5 and 2, what's the panic?

exo2769, PleaseBanMeForMyOwnGood, RangerWall92 and 2 others liked this.

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