Right Handed D 18

Team: 2018-19 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 3, 2019

Published: Jan. 4, 2019

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

I understand everyone is going to throw a fit how we lost a right handed D to gain one back, but Rielly needs a good D partner to play with him, and Pesce is far superior then Zaitsev.

I believe the first trade with Carolina makes more sense since we can afford to lose two forwards to gain a great defensemen. I made up two scenarios, comment if there should be changes.
The Philly trade can happen to any team that would see interest in Zaitsev, but I don't know personally what he is worth so I made two scenarios to give us Toronto fans feedback (maybe he's worth a bag of pucks idk).
Connor Brown will have to be traded in order to have enough cap to sign Matthews and Marner.

For the cap issues everyone on this website has been talking about since Tavares was signed, here's my point of view.

First off, we either lose Andreas or Kapi, so we are saving between 1.2 - 3 million. Plus we save 500k trading Zaitsev away and bringing in Pesce.
We probably won't be signing Jordan Weal, Gardiner, Ron and Hutchinson.

*See 'Right Handed D 19' for Kapanen, Marner and Matthews salaries*

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