Big John T
Joined: Sep. 2018
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This looks a little better if you consider Sandin and Liljegren playing on the Leafs before next year's playoffs. So without any new pieces, we should be better even if we lose Nylander from the roster.
After that we can plan on having more cap room and filling in holes from the UFA market.
But I would feel much more positive if we added an established RD, instead of another LD.
After waiting out Marleau+Clarkson's ghost, Zaitsev is the only one that doesn't fit, and one mistake shouldn't sink a roster.
The worry is do we have the depth to go multiple playoff rounds, and it might be 2 years before we can start filling in those holes.