Could Toronto Have Avoided Their Failures

Created by: Agent_Of_R9

Team: 2021-22 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: Oct. 24, 2021

Published: Oct. 26, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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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 know a lot of people like to point out at Dubas for handing these large contracts to top players, but the problems within this team have been prevalent since the Matthews era first began under Lou. He wasted assets on unnecessary players while the team was in rebuild phase, inherited one of the worst defence cores of all time consisting of Zaitsev, Polak, Hunwick and Hainsey while signing multiple cap dumps like Marleau, Komarov and Martin. Basically Dubas had to clean up this mess, he's had to trade many good players with little leverage and now that he's finally assembled a contender, the players have failed him due to the pressure. It's a sickening situation to analyze and feels like a curse.

This post will go over everything that went wrong.

Free Agent Signings

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Verhaeghe, Carter		1	$1,000,000
Kadri, Nazem		1	$4,500,000

Trades

TOR

Strome, Dylan

Additional Details:

*Drafted Instead In 2015

CHI

Marner, Mitchell

TOR

Brown, Connor

OTT

*Retained - Lou Never Signs Zaitsev

TOR

*Never Signed

SJS

Patrick Marleau

TOR

Weegar, MacKenzie

Additional Details:

*Done In 2019

FLA

Kadri, Nazem

TOR

Hyman, Zach

EDM

*Retained

TOR

Kapanen, Kasperi

PIT

*Retained

TOR

McCann, Jared

SEA

*Retained

Retained Salary Transactions

Phil Kessel: $1,200,000 (15%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2022
2023
2024

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$81,500,000	$80,575,116	$0	$400,000	$924,884

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Hyman, Zach $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW NMC UFA - 7	Matthews, Auston $11,640,250$11,640,250 C UFA - 3	Brown, Connor $3,600,000$3,600,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Verhaeghe, Carter $1,000,000$1,000,000	Tavares, John $11,000,000$11,000,000 C, LW NMC UFA - 4	Nylander, William $6,962,366$6,962,366 RW UFA - 3
McCann, Jared $2,940,000$2,940,000 C, LW UFA - 1	Strome, Dylan $3,000,000$3,000,000 C UFA - 1	Kapanen, Kasperi $3,200,000$3,200,000 RW UFA - 1
Bunting, Michael $950,000$950,000 LW UFA - 2	Spezza, Jason $750,000$750,000 C, RW UFA - 1	Kase, Ondrej $1,250,000$1,250,000 RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Rielly, Morgan $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD NMC UFA - 1	Brodie, TJ $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD/RD NTC UFA - 3	Mrázek, Petr $3,800,000$3,800,000 G M-NTC UFA - 3
Muzzin, Jake $5,625,000$5,625,000 LD NTC UFA - 3	Weegar, MacKenzie $3,250,000$3,250,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	Campbell, Jack $1,650,000$1,650,000 G UFA - 1
Sandin, Rasmus $894,167$894,167 LD UFA - 1	Liljegren, Timothy $863,333$863,333 ($400,000$400K) RD RFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Amadio, Michael $750,000$750,000 RW, LW UFA - 1		Kämpf, David $1,500,000$1,500,000 C UFA - 2
Biega, Alex $750,000$750,000 RD UFA - 1		Kerfoot, Alexander $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, C, RW UFA - 2
		Simmonds, Wayne $900,000$900,000 RW, LW NTC UFA - 2
		Engvall, Pierre $1,250,000$1,250,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
		Ritchie, Nick $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW UFA - 2
		Mikheyev, Ilya $1,645,000$1,645,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
		Holl, Justin $2,000,000$2,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2
		Hutchinson, Michael $725,000$725,000 G UFA - 1
		Dermott, Travis $1,500,000$1,500,000 LD/RD UFA - 2

Special Teams

Power Play 1
		Tavares, J.		Matthews, A.
	Nylander, W.		Sandin, R.

Power Play 2
			Verhaeghe, C.
	Spezza, J.	Rielly, M.

Penalty Kill 1

	Dermott, T.	Brodie, T.

Penalty Kill 2
	Bunting, M.	Verhaeghe, C.
	Muzzin, J.

Top Comments

Oct. 26, 2021 at 9:59 p.m.

Wadejos123

Joined: May 2017

Posts: 8,314

Likes: 4,966

I think you made right pick when you got marner instead of strome lol. And didn't strome go ahead of marner?

Oct. 26, 2021 at 10:00 p.m.

hazard

Ballards Curse

Joined: Dec. 2017

Posts: 1,055

Likes: 271

Leaf fans and their Marner hate is becoming extremely Cringe. His contract is trash, the player himself isn't. Stop

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Oct. 26, 2021 at 10:00 p.m.

draft_em_sign_em_trade_em

Joined: Nov. 2018

Posts: 9,442

Likes: 2,285

Edited Oct. 26, 2021 at 10:08 p.m.

Marner is the 2nd best player of his Draft year, he would be the best if some guy named McDavid wasn't #1.

Signing J.T. is Dubas first mistake and all the domino effects start there.

I'd hate to be the Leafs next GM, because Dubas is leaving a team in worse shape than the one he inherited.

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Oct. 26, 2021 at 10:02 p.m.

littlejerryseinfeld

Joined: Nov. 2017

Posts: 27,977

Likes: 14,621

Quoting: draft_em_sign_em_trade_em

Marner is the 2nd best player Draft in his year, he would be the best if some guy named McDavid wasn't #1.

Signing J.T. is Dubas first mistake and all the domino effects start there.

Oh come on, eichel > marner.

My god

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Oct. 26, 2021 at 10:02 p.m.

odyssey

H.Lindholm Lover

Joined: Apr. 2021

Posts: 3,651

Likes: 929

ah yes the leafs should have drafted the guy who was took ahead of marner who is way way way worse than him. makes sense

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