Team: 2020-21 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: Sep. 7, 2019

Published: Sep. 7, 2019

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Some worrying rumours of the cap not going up much next year but for this I assumed that it'll be 83.5 since that'll be the same 2 mill increase as last year.

This Marner contract is based on the rumour of 3 years, 8.5 mill (yikes) but I think this would be a pretty good team for next season with it.

I wanted a good RHD replacement for Ceci to play with Reilly so I did the overdone Pesce deal. Probably an overpay on the Leafs side but it'll take a lot for CAR to give up that great contract.

With the Gardiner signing they have so many great D-men and I think they'd like another forward instead of all those D-men. Johnnson scored 20 goals and is only signed for 3.4 mill for another 3 seasons and Dermott can be a decent replacement D to play less minutes. The 1st could be changed to a 2nd with more prospects thrown in or something but with this roster I'm hoping it's 31st overall.

Kappy doesn't seem to wanna play the left side but he's been shown to be able to do so in the past so he's gonna be told to in this situation.

Mikheyev walks in this case too, we just don't have the space to resign him if he does well and if he doesn't then we shouldn't be resigning him anyway lol.

Barrie reportedly wants 8x8 but we all know that's insane so 7x8 is the contract here. Muzzin will be 30 and probably will want a long-term deal because of that. He took a discount in LA and will probably take a little less here too (will have to if he wants an 8 year term). 5.25 is the number I gave over 8 years.

4th line players and scratches can be changed, they shouldn't be playing many minutes through the season so I don't really care. I'm also assuming league minimum increases to 750k.