The leafs actually got better

Team: 2021-22 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: Aug. 6, 2021

Published: Aug. 6, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Alright after really looking over the squad from last year and this year i have come to the personal conclusion that this years team is going to be better than last years team

The basis of this is simple

The leafs lost Hyman Anderson Thornton Nash Foligno Bogosian and it would appear as tho galch is also gone

Nash and foligno played like 10 games combined so they dont really impact this.

They have added in the roster below Ritchie Kase Bunting Kampf and Mrazek as starting linup players
and since last year i feel the individuals in the taxi squad box are all NHL bottom 3 or bottom 2 player options that were not there last year either because of no room or because they were not good enough.

But going at it line by line ive come to this conclusion

Ritchie<Hyman
The first line is worse, but is still better than 24 teams first line
Kerfoot on the second line>kerfoot on the third line
Kerfoot>galch
the second line is much much better and is now likely better than 24 teams second line
The third line is now

Bunting-Kampf-Kase which i believe is
Bunting-Kampf-Kase> Engvall-Kerfoot-Soup

and the fourth line lost Thornton but will likely gain Robertson and brooks and i think
Robertson-Brooks-Spezza>Thornton-Spezza-Simmonds


The defense stays the same with the exception of bogo, but no bogo means both sandin and lilly get a chance to play more and i believe
Sandin/Lilly>bogo i think both are

And the goalies might end up being equal all depends on health, i believe freddy still has it in him if he can get his mind right.


I think this team is better than last year i really do. If ya disagree on anything lets discuss it in the comments.

The trade was made because Arizona has like 30 million in cap space and its just a cap dump the players were not performing well for their contracts. its unlikely dubas does what i did but i dont believe they will be playing.

Oh yeah this also leaves 1.5 million in cap to be used at the deadline to acquire a player or something. and the players are mostly signed to 2 year deals which means they wont have to do this all again next year.


All of the players on the Taxi Squad not named Josh Hosang Timothy liljegren or Rodian amirov are in a state where if they are not going to play at an nhl level than the leafs should try and move assets to gain picks to be used at the draft. Teams need prospects and the leafs develop prospects and draft like few teams in the nhl can. They should weaponize this more.