Leafs Next Year

Created by: KMarner10

Team: 2022-23 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 5, 2022

Published: Apr. 26, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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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

This only happens if Muzzin waives his NTC and Giordano takes a Spezza-like deal.

The goaltending is a very solid tandem who can split the games in order to not overwork anyone. The Husso contract might be wishful thinking, but it's either him or we sign a guy like Holtby or Wedgewood to a 1yr deal as a stopgap for Woll.

The forwards are all solid, and Knies can take over Spezza's role come the '23-24 season. The PK will still be top-tier, especially with us having like 8 forwards that can kill penalties.

If Sandin comes back, he should get another chance with Lybushkin because they were very good before he went down. Brodie and Rielly reunite as the top pair, with Gio and Liljegrin being the 'shutdown' pair.

With the extra cap space left over and picks acquired, they will be able to trade for a top 6 fwd at the deadline and a depth defenseman to be the 7/8th guy in.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Kase, Ondrej	2	$1,500,000
Liljegren, Timothy	4	$2,000,000
Sandin, Rasmus	3	$1,750,000
Engvall, Pierre	3	$2,000,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Blackwell, Colin	2	$1,125,000
Spezza, Jason	1	$750,000
Mikheyev, Ilya	4	$3,500,000
Giordano, Mark	1	$750,000
Campbell, Jack	3	$4,000,000
Lyubushkin, Ilya	3	$1,833,333
Husso, Ville	4	$4,000,000

Trades

TOR

Niemeläinen, Markus

EDM

What would he cost?

TOR

2023 3rd round pick (COL)

COL

Holl, Justin

Additional Details:

Could be a good replacement for Manson/Barron if needed

TOR

2023 3rd round pick (PIT)
2024 6th round pick (LAK)

LAK

Additional Details:

If Muzzin is willing to waive for his former team, who is also going to be going for the playoffs for years to come

TOR

2023 5th round pick (ARI)

ARI

Additional Details:

Cap dump with Mrazek, but they also get two young players who need consistent playing time.

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	$82,500,000	$82,098,116	$212,500	$0	$401,884

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Bunting, Michael $950,000$950,000 LW UFA - 1	Matthews, Auston $11,640,250$11,640,250 C UFA - 2	Marner, Mitchell $10,903,000$10,903,000 RW UFA - 3
Robertson, Nicholas $796,667$796,667 LW, RW RFA - 2	Tavares, John $11,000,000$11,000,000 C, LW NMC UFA - 3	Nylander, William $6,962,366$6,962,366 RW UFA - 2
Mikheyev, Ilya $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 4	Kämpf, David $1,500,000$1,500,000 C UFA - 1	Kase, Ondrej $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW UFA - 1
Engvall, Pierre $2,000,000$2,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Blackwell, Colin $1,125,000$1,125,000 C, RW UFA - 2	Spezza, Jason $750,000$750,000 C, RW UFA

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
	Brodie, TJ $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD/RD NTC UFA - 2
Rielly, Morgan $7,500,000$7,500,000 LD NMC UFA - 8	Liljegren, Timothy $2,000,000$2,000,000 RD RFA - 2	Campbell, Jack $4,000,000$4,000,000 G UFA - 5
Giordano, Mark $750,000$750,000 LD UFA - 2	Lyubushkin, Ilya $1,833,333$1,833,333 RD UFA - 2	Husso, Ville $4,000,000$4,000,000 G UFA - 3
Sandin, Rasmus $1,750,000$1,750,000 LD UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Simmonds, Wayne $900,000$900,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 1
Clifford, Kyle $762,500$762,500 LW UFA - 2
Niemeläinen, Markus $762,500$762,500 LD UFA - 2

Taxi Squad
Douglas, Curtis $837,500$837,500 ($0$0$0$0) C RFA - 2
Källgren, Erik $750,000$750,000 ($0$0$0$0) G UFA - 1

Special Teams

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

Power Play 2
Kase, O.		Spezza, J.		Bunting, M.
	Sandin, R.		Robertson, N.

Penalty Kill 1
	Kämpf, D.	Kase, O.
	Giordano, M.	Liljegren, T.

Penalty Kill 2
	Marner, M.	Mikheyev, I.
	Rielly, M.	Brodie, T.

Top Comments

Apr. 26, 2022 at 9:12 a.m.

silentfox1

Silentfox1

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I am really uneasy that were gonna give Husso 4x4 and Campbell 4x3. I think it is one or the other for me.

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Apr. 26, 2022 at 9:13 a.m.

KiSS_My_Asthma

KissMyAsthma

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Red hot take with 8 million in goalies! But I like it.
Is Toronto interested in Niemalainen? I think the only way they trade him is to give more opportunity to play in the NHL, and honestly I think he'd get stuck in the AHL in Toronto. I could see them moving him to Arizona, or someone who kinda needs roster players.

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Apr. 26, 2022 at 9:15 a.m.

KMarner10

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Quoting: silentfox1

I am really uneasy that were gonna give Husso 4x4 and Campbell 4x3. I think it is one or the other for me.

That's what I'm worried of. In the amount of games that Husso has played this year, I feel like this role would be perfect for both. Also, he plays calm enough to potentially work with this D-core. I'm still not comfortable making Campbell the #1 guy, especially because if he gets hurt, we will be in deep trouble. If one goalie is on a serious heater, then you can play them a bit more, but I think that this is best case-scenario.

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Apr. 26, 2022 at 9:17 a.m.

KMarner10

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Quoting: KiSS_My_Asthma

He's a big guy who is cheap and defensively minded. I think he gets into 20-30 games with this team, but if he isn't doing well, we make a trade and he becomes the 8th guy. As we have seen lately, injuries happen, so we need to be ready for that.

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Apr. 26, 2022 at 9:18 a.m.

Lambchopz

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Niemelainen is basically just Kristian Rubins, not really a reason to get him if we’ve already got a comparable. Muzz likely isn’t going anywheres, and it makes more sense to save cap by having McKay as the backup if he earns himself the ELC out of camp (or Kallgren/Woll). The team itself here looks good up front. My changes would be just don’t trade Muzz, let Boosh go to FA, and sign a backup level goalie in FA instead of Husso who is experienced to battle it out with McKay, Kallgren, and Woll for the backup role (Koskinen maybe?)

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