Quoting: F50marco
Oh I know. I was just pointing out that removing 10M from the cap and only signing your RFAs, the leafs are still right up there against the cap. That's crazy.
Leafs ran into cap problem with a couple of situations...all their doing but not all bad.
1. Signing Marleau to that three year deal
2.Signing a Tavares....a UFA, but for free, no assets traded
3. Overpaying Nylander, Matthews
4, The unexpected "stardom" of Marner, Kapanen and Johnson which costs them more cap money than expected.
So if the solution is next year is a retired Marleau trade and the sweetener is Kadri to get cap compliant.....well that's not a real bad place to be in. If Marleau doesn't retire....yikes that's another 6.25m to get rid off. IMO the Leafs would not have acquired Muzzin at his 4m next year, unless they knew Marleau was retiring.
You're right it is not great for a team to be right against the cap,,,,,especially one that hasn't won a playoff round with this group. But the Leafs aren't unique...Winnipeg, Anaheim are against the cap too. And Tampa too with all their NTCs, and Vegas is getting close to the cap also.