Apparently the Leafs are still in on Karlsson and it makes no sense to me

Created by: BCAPP

Team: 2023-24 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 22, 2023

Published: Jul. 22, 2023

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

1) They've already let many of their best defensive forwards go this summer (kerfoot, O'Reilly, Acciari, as much as people don't recognize it Engvall)

2) Karlsson is a future hall of famer, but he also isn't something were particularly lacking in. While he is significantly better than Rielly, they have a similar skill set. He's not the kind of defenseman we are missing.

3) so presuming they don't want to trade Rielly for Karlsson (as between their contracts and age I don't think I'd even want to trade them straight up how do you make the cap work? I gotta think Brodie plus others go. But then our d will be terrible defensively. Brodie is by far our best. Plus I think Klingberg would have to go for cap and it's bad form to trade Ufa signings before they even play.

Free Agent Signings

RFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Samsonov, Ilya		1	$2,750,000

Trades

TOR

Benning, Matthew
Karlsson, Erik ($3,000,000 retained)

SJS

Additional Details:

Some massive amount of futures.

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2024
2025
2026

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
21	$83,500,000	$81,993,950	$0	$0	$1,506,050

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Bertuzzi, Tyler $5,500,000$5,500,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 1	Matthews, Auston $11,640,250$11,640,250 C NMC UFA - 1	Nylander, William $6,962,366$6,962,366 RW NMC UFA - 1
Knies, Matthew $925,000$925,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Tavares, John $11,000,000$11,000,000 C, LW NMC UFA - 2	Marner, Mitchell $10,903,000$10,903,000 RW NMC UFA - 2
Robertson, Nicholas $796,667$796,667 LW, RW RFA - 1	Domi, Max $3,000,000$3,000,000 C, RW M-NTC UFA - 1	Järnkrok, Calle $2,100,000$2,100,000 RW, C, LW M-NTC UFA - 3
Lafferty, Sam $1,150,000$1,150,000 RW, C, LW UFA - 1	Kämpf, David $2,400,000$2,400,000 C M-NTC UFA - 4	Reaves, Ryan $1,350,000$1,350,000 RW UFA - 3

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
McCabe, Jake $2,000,000$2,000,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Karlsson, Erik $7,000,000$7,000,000 RD NMC UFA - 4	Samsonov, Ilya $2,750,000$2,750,000 G UFA - 1
Rielly, Morgan $7,500,000$7,500,000 LD NMC UFA - 7	Liljegren, Timothy $1,400,000$1,400,000 RD RFA - 1	Woll, Joseph $766,667$766,667 G RFA - 2
Giordano, Mark $800,000$800,000 LD UFA - 1	Benning, Matthew $1,250,000$1,250,000 RD UFA - 3

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Holmberg, Pontus $800,000$800,000 C, LW RFA - 2		Muzzin, Jake $5,625,000$5,625,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 1

Top Comments

Jul. 22, 2023 at 11:46 a.m.

jfkst1

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What is the source on this rumor?

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Jul. 22, 2023 at 11:50 a.m.

palhal

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Sorry bud, there is no reason to think the Leafs "are in on Karlsson". Till Trevling/Grier or NTC Karlsson confirm it, why would you even make such a statement.

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Jul. 22, 2023 at 11:56 a.m.

Ryminister_92

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They’re 90% out, 10% “in” from what I’ve heard from people that work for the Leafs. They’re not actively calling San Jose asking about him, but they’re keeping their ears open in case something comes up that they absolutely can’t turn down. But they know they’d have to move salary in another deal and San Jose’s asking price is too high for them. So they’re not really in on him but they’re not necessarily fully out. It’s not gonna happen though.

Jul. 22, 2023 at 11:58 a.m.

mokumboi