long term solutions

Created by: pharrow

Team: 2021-22 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: Nov. 21, 2021

Published: Nov. 21, 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

TOR needs to come up with real solutions for it's defense if it's going to win a cup.
You can already tell this team is designed to make two cores.
The first one that is now, and another one in 4 years.
The problem is, who will the 2nd core include. While a guy like JT might not be back or if he is back on a much cheaper deal as he'll be 35, Guys like Matthews are going to be paid more. That is if he even sticks around. I have a hard time believing looking at how the team has been run that he will. They can't win with their current strategy. His only real reason for staying would be the money.
They have no depth, the GM has no ability to put depth together. All their "young" players will be on the wrong side of 30 midway into the 2nd core. That's not a good sign.
His friends on the team will probably be gone as there is no way in hell I can see this team signing Marner to another cluster F deal. Furthermore, they will need to find a legit 2C after JT ages out. Which isn't easy to do.
So if this team is going to win, it's probably going to be in the next 3 years.
None of their current prospects or picks are going to help that window. A lot of that starts with the fact that they have drafted poorly.
They have had Matthews for 6 years now.
If you take out Matthews, Marner and Nylander. How many quality draft picks do you see there over the last 6 years?
The over hyped Robertson and basically nothing that really stands out.
It starts by drafting everyone who is 5'9. Which is basically the minimum hockey height because they don't want to tell you a guy is 5'4.
This team needs help on Defense in the next 3 years and it needs it cheap. It starts one piece at a time. It might cost you, but given what else they have done, I don't know how anyone can complain. You gave up a 1st round pick for Nick Foligno, as a rental.
I have to think Dubas is gone for those kind of moves, when the blueline is a joke.

Trades

TOR

Joseph, Pierre-Olivier

Additional Details:

TOR is going nowhere with their current defense.
Their biggest issue is they need guys on the cheap. Odds of teams giving up a young cost controlled defenseman for cheap is nil. Rodion is an OK prospect. He has not really done anything yet. The 1st round pick should be late round.
POJ can be resigned for next to nothing for the next 2 years giving TOR a defenseman at the very least a 3 year player cost controlled to help with their cap.
Given Muzzin's decline it can help solidify their defense. They will still need to find another RD. As what they currently have sucks. But they sure as hell get an upgrade over Holl, Dermott, Sandin, and TL.
Penguins can make this move because they are set at LD long term. I don't see them moving any of their LD, their D is what is carrying the team with all the injuries. It wasn't till the D got injured/covid that the team fell apart.

PIT

Amirov, Rodion
2022 1st round pick (TOR)

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
23	$81,500,000	$79,276,449	$0	$612,500	$2,223,551

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Ritchie, Nick $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW UFA - 2	Matthews, Auston $11,640,250$11,640,250 C UFA - 3	Marner, Mitchell $10,903,000$10,903,000 RW UFA - 4
Engvall, Pierre $1,250,000$1,250,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Tavares, John $11,000,000$11,000,000 C, LW NMC UFA - 4	Nylander, William $6,962,366$6,962,366 RW UFA - 3
Bunting, Michael $950,000$950,000 LW UFA - 2	Kerfoot, Alexander $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, C, RW UFA - 2	Kase, Ondrej $1,250,000$1,250,000 RW UFA - 1
	Kämpf, David $1,500,000$1,500,000 C UFA - 2	Simmonds, Wayne $900,000$900,000 RW, LW NTC UFA - 2
	Semyonov, Kirill $825,000$825,000 C UFA - 1
	Spezza, Jason $750,000$750,000 C, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Muzzin, Jake $5,625,000$5,625,000 LD NTC UFA - 3	Brodie, TJ $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD/RD NTC UFA - 3	Campbell, Jack $1,650,000$1,650,000 G UFA - 1
Rielly, Morgan $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD NMC UFA - 1	Holl, Justin $2,000,000$2,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Woll, Joseph $750,000$750,000 G RFA - 1
Dermott, Travis $1,500,000$1,500,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	Liljegren, Timothy $863,333$863,333 ($400,000$400K) RD RFA - 1
Sandin, Rasmus $894,167$894,167 LD UFA - 1
Joseph, Pierre-Olivier $863,333$863,333 ($212,500$212K) LD RFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Mrázek, Petr $3,800,000$3,800,000 G M-NTC UFA - 3
		Mikheyev, Ilya $1,645,000$1,645,000 LW, RW UFA - 1

Top Comments

Nov. 21, 2021 at 5:00 p.m.

Byrr

Joined: Jul. 2019

Posts: 6,291

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You traded for a LD. Long term the Leafs have Rielly and Sandin, who's having a very good sophomore season, there for the foreseeable future. You failed to even have a basic understanding of the problem and aimed to the wrong side.