You better hope that the players on the second and third pairings develop quickly this year if you're going to roll with them. Doesn't matter how deep your forward corps is if your only good pairing is your top pairing, and Zaitsev is still a question mark after his down year last season.

Why did you shorten your team name? I think it should be, “2019-20 Defending Stanley Cup Champs Leafs”.?

Agreed. I’m pretty sure Dermott will be fine out of the bottom 4. I don’t envision Carrick being in the second pairing, but I’d be happily surprised if he was able to. I’d rather have Ozhiganov in that spot if he can replicate what he does in the K to the NHL.

I am not overly high on Carrick, Holl, or Borgman but I would love it if they made a believer out of me this year.

The Matthews contract is a bit low.

First the cap will be about 83m. Teams have 23 players. You do what so many others do, pay low end players far too little. for instance if Borgman and Ozhiganov, especially OZ since he just one year away from being a UFA.are going to be Leafs they certainly get more than you indicate. Horton will have the total 5.3m cap free