Team: 2019-20 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 17, 2019

Published: Jun. 17, 2019

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Here's my take on how to handle the 2019 offseason for the Leafs:

1. After a long negotiation, that hopefully won't creep into training camp, I believe Marner and the Leafs will settle on a roughly 6 year x $10 million deal and Kapanen will sign a bridge deal for 3 years x $2.8 million. I wanted to use Marner at $10 million AAV to make this process relatively challenging for myself.
2. The Leafs will have to give up second round pick Jeremy Bracco (who likely would have cracked the Leaf's roster this season) to move Marleau's contract.
3. The return for Brown will be a lot lower than most Leaf's fans would hope for, seeing as there is a giant supply of similar players and most teams looking to acquire such a player probably won't have a lot of cap room, making it difficult to move Brown for $0 in cap hit coming back the Leaf's way.
4. After an atrocious season as the Leaf's back up last season, I can't see Sparks fetching anything more than a 6th round pick.
5. Miller's value has dropped due to a mediocre, injury ridden season and due to the fact that it is well known Vegas is in a cap crunch and needs to move Miller in order to re-sign the likes of William Karlsson. Gauthier is as inexpensive as (debatable) NHL centremen get and he could be a good fit for Vegas' fourth line, especially if they're forced to move Eakin because of cap restraints. A second round pick with Gauthier would likely get the deal done.
6. I believe Pesce would be a great fit for the Leaf's top pairing and since the Canes have been looking to move a d-man for some scoring since Dundon and Waddell have taken over, I feel as though Johnsson plus a couple of mid-round picks and a depth d-man may be able to get the deal done for their second pairing d-man, especially with the emergence of Fleury and Bean.
7. Since there has been rumours of teams seeing value in right-handed Zaitsev (possibly even the team who's GM signed him), I feel as though moving this contract will be a bit easier than most fans think.

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