you aren't gonna get that for a overpaid late 30s player.

I expect it'll be next to nothing return, but I like Halbgewachs so I included him. Plus, what people always exclude is non-cap teams worry more about salary than cap. Marleau has a 4M bonus July 1, with only 2.25M in salary to be paid in 2019-2020. He's still a good player, and a veteran presence, so after July 1, 2019 I don't think it would actually be that hard to find a taker for him. I chose SJ just for simplicity, but Arizona, Carolina, Vancouver, etc teams could easily take him while spending little money and improving the team for a year if they are trying to finally make the playoffs.

Why do leaf fans think they can trade Marleau. He has a NMC for a reason, to be on cup contender in his last nhl seasons. San Jose has their now cap problems without adding marleau. To think Marleau would even consider being traded to cap needy, non playoff is just leaf fan day dreaming.

Marleau won't waive to leave Toronto so you'll have to find another cap clearing trade.

He submits a list of 10 teams. He doesn't have a full NMC, so it could be hard, but definitely doable.

Marleau has a full NMC.

If the team was a full on contender I think he would he never won a cup . He's only got a few more chances.

It will be interesting. You "Goldendelicious" are right. He has a full NMC. At the time it was signed, everyone on the leafs with NMC or NTC had at most 10 teams they could go to. He got full NMC for some reason. Still doesn't mean he can't be moved, and also I doubt he'd say no if we needed cap space and SJ was the other side. It's all hypothetical, but the contract structure being front-loaded with bonuses definitely made it look like Year 3 was to be moved when signed.

If you put Horton on LTIR when the team is up to the cap you have enough for Marleu.