Realistic signing of core group over 2 mil help

Created by: acalza

Team: 2019-20 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 2, 2019

Published: Jan. 2, 2019

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

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UFA - 5

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Signing the main core and squeezing from cap as much as possible
Kappy is going to be a problem with the cap, I tried a bridge deal, we can't move Zaits or Marleau, I'm trying to be as realistic as possible. Lilypad may not be ready, Rosen is a safe choice, but Sandin may be NHL ready. Gardiner is impossible to sign. Holl is a career AHL'er from the looks of it.

EDIT: I can't make this work with a 5 percent cap increase. I'm over 1.9 million. What would you do, what changes would you make? Personally I think Marner is worth more, and Matthews slightly less. Hainsey still has another year we can sign him for, and Babs loves him. Marleau isnt getting traded over his dead body. *shrugs* help me. What trade could I make that seems reasonable? Everyone is team friendly except Zaits and Marleau....So I don't see a possible trade....

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Kapanen, Kasperi	4	$4,000,000
Johnsson, Andreas	2	$2,500,000
Marner, Mitchell	6	$9,000,000
Matthews, Auston	6	$11,000,000
Moore, Trevor	1	$925,000
Sparks, Garret	2	$925,000
Ozhiganov, Igor	2	$3,000,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Hainsey, Ron		1	$3,000,000

Buyouts

Mikhail Grabovski: $0

Retained Salary Transactions

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

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2020
2021
2022

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
20	$83,475,000	$79,850,699	$0	$0	$3,624,301

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Johnsson, Andreas $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 4	Tavares, John $11,000,000$11,000,000 C, LW NMC UFA - 6	Marner, Mitchell $9,000,000$9,000,000 RW UFA - 6
Hyman, Zach $2,250,000$2,250,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 2	Matthews, Auston $11,000,000$11,000,000 C UFA - 5	Nylander, William $6,962,366$6,962,366 RW UFA - 5
Marleau, Patrick $700,000$700,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Kadri, Nazem $4,500,000$4,500,000 C M-NTC UFA - 3	Kapanen, Kasperi $4,000,000$4,000,000 RW UFA - 3
Moore, Trevor $925,000$925,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Gauthier, Frédérik $675,000$675,000 C UFA - 1	Brown, Connor $2,100,000$2,100,000 RW, LW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Rielly, Morgan $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD UFA - 3	Hainsey, Ron $3,000,000$3,000,000 RD UFA - 1	Andersen, Frederik $5,000,000$5,000,000 G M-NTC UFA - 2
Dermott, Travis $863,333$863,333 LD/RD UFA - 1	Zaitsev, Nikita $4,500,000$4,500,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 5
Rosén, Calle $750,000$750,000 LD UFA - 2	Ozhiganov, Igor $3,000,000$3,000,000 RD UFA	Sparks, Garret $925,000$925,000 G UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Horton, Nathan $5,300,000$5,300,000 RW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1

Top Comments

Jan. 2, 2019 at 9:48 p.m.

Emoon

suffering since 2010

Joined: Aug. 2017

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Is Igor worth 3 million as a third pairing guy? idk

Hainsey doesn't neeeed to come back.

Throw zaitsev into a package for a top pairing rh defensemen

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Jan. 2, 2019 at 9:49 p.m.

Juice

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I'd say start with not giving Hainsey and Ozzi $3m contracts. If Hainsey wants to re-sign for $1.5m...sure...otherwise he can walk. Ozzi hasn't proven he's a $3m player...if he wants to stay he can have a 1yr extension clost to $1m. So that's $5m right there. $2m of that goes to your cap...another $2.5m needs to go to bench players.

Take $250k each away from Johnsson and Kapanen..on shorter term deals if needed...add that to the $500k left over from above and give it to Matthews. If those numbers aren't enough to get Matthews and Marner signed...a guy like Brown needs to get traded for a pick and a $800-$1m vet or Marlie call up takes his place.

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Jan. 2, 2019 at 10:05 p.m.

Gauss

Joined: Dec. 2018

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Hainsey - only resign if you can for 1 to 1.25 million for one season Otherwise look at other options.
Ozhiganov - max at 1.5 million per for one or two seasons. He still needs to prove himself some more before getting a 3 mil contract.
Marner and Matthews - look good - 20 mil max combined should be the budget - probably will be for 8 years though
Johnsson and Kapanen budget should be 5 million combined for short terms 2 or three years, I am think 3 to 3.25 mil for Kapanen and 1.75 to 2 mil for Johnsson for 2 years
Then add 3 players at the low level 800K to 1mil to max out the 23 man roster.

That should get you to your cap 83 mil cap

See my attempt at the team next year - https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/963556

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Jan. 2, 2019 at 10:06 p.m.

blowing_the_zone

Joined: May 2018

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I think you got the tips you needed from Emoon and Juice. And would add that if things get tight then players get moved starting in order with Brown, then Hyman, Johnsson, Z and then Kap (although i hope that never happens..) Hainsey is fine this year, but sooner or later he needs to retire. I doubt he's back next year

Jan. 2, 2019 at 10:13 p.m.

palhal

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Joined: Jul. 2015

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You might be able to save a few dollars as suggested above, but Leaf fans and I'm should stop worrying about "the core". Sign the 11m signing of Tavares, the core has changed. Also Marner sudden emergence as star from 6.5m to 9m player changes the structure of the team. As does the performance of Kapanen.
FACT: In order to give fair contracts to everyone...and maybe even sign a more expensive (better) Dman, and expensive "core" piece has to be traded. Might be Nylander. Teams have to deal with cap all the time. Teams sign UFAs or trade players for cap reasons. Leafs are going to have decisions too on how to allocate cap money.

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