Day 2, Leafs after the waiver wire

Personally, I would gamble on McElhinney clearning waivers even if it only buys you $850k of temporary space, but I'm skeptical management would want to risk the plans they have for goalie prospect development.

I did my best, still only managed to guarantee 13 F/7D/2G. I wouldn't bet on every player being claimed, other teams will be flooding waivers at the same time, but this is a strong indication that the Leafs have to act.

Some combination of the following:
+ Be prepared to lose for nothing Marchenko, Martin, Moore, Komarov, Fehr, Smith -- and so try to set up trades for all of them now, anything is better than nothing
+ Trade guys that are on the above roster, clearing up $10,443,000 of cap space to guarantee you don't have to expose any of the players lost to the waiver monster in this exercise.

Bozak and JVR are the obvious ways to clear $8.45 million of cap space, but Leafs fans sound like Sakic with Stastny if you ask me. You don't need to trade them, but you would be stupid not to live for tomorrow.

Don't know why you think the Leafs have a cap problem entering training camp. Teams are allowed to over the cap. And come October 1, the Leafs have Horton on LTIR guaranteed, and Lupul 99% guaranteed.
Of course if the Leafs wasted 4m by signing Franson, it might be needed. But who in their right mind sign Franson for that money and term?
If the Leafs have any intention of making the playoffs they aren't having Leivo and Rychel as their 3/4 LWers. And they aren't going to be testing Marner to play centre a position he played sometimes in junior.
I have never read of any Golden Rule rules regarding Bozak, JVR and Kadri. But there is a "unwritten rule" that the Leafs would only trade these players for assets that would help this year and in future, since these players are needed this year to compete for playoff spot. Of course there are about 26 teams that are competing for playoff spots that have the same "unwritten rule."

Since you deleted your last post about the exact same thing with my comments on it I'll just say this:

I really believe you don't know the ins and outs of the NHL and especially the Leafs yet you continue to comment on them. And personally I don't care if your critiques come from an educated view on how you will disagree with whatever you want to disagree with......but it HAS to be educated. Your critiques are not. Your suggestions, most of the time, are some of the most irresponsibly concocted solutions I have ever seen. Which tells me you don't follow the Leafs at all. Please please please do some real research before commenting. I know you got it in ya.....just educate yourself.

Can you type but not read?

Day 1 of the season teams have to be momentarily compliant with the cap before adding anyone to the LTIR. It happens every year.

Keep anyone you want for the playoffs, but you will need to send guys to the AHL for the NHL team to be cap-compliant and only Matthews/Nylander/Marner/Soshnikov with their tiny cap hits are exempt from waivers.

I deleted a first version of the roster because it fell even further short of resulting in a full roster, and so it was easier to redo it than to add a paragraph of footnotes explaining the options.

I do know about the waiver dance, and you are wrong if you choose to believe it doesn't apply to the Leafs. It's an NHL rule.
If you have a different list of guys to send down to open the season, speak up.