Joined: Jun. 2016
Posts: 3,253
Likes: 1,805
The crunch is two fold.
1) Matthews, Marner, and Kapanen will all make in that range +/- $500,000. If they all lean towards the high end of the range, you'll have issues but that could be fixed by dumping Brown.
2) Gardiner. You may not like him but he's currently 2nd for defensemen on Toronto for TOI/GP at 21:39. Dermott might become his "replacement" but he's only averaging 17:45 per GP. Then you have to backfill Demott's time with someone who currently isn't getting any NHL icetime. Maybe you all trust your prospects to do it (and you all know your prospects better than I do) but i'd be nervous about that.