Going WILD with trades

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Created by: newballcoach

Team: 2019-20 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: Dec. 3, 2019

Published: Dec. 3, 2019

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

I think the Leafs are shopping at the dollar store this year, and won't be making any big moves. This trade probably won't happen until closer to the deadline (health is a big concern here for Minnesota).

I am not 100% sure what the return for these two guys is, but the Wild need some youth badly and are having a rough season. Dubnyk is signed for another year and Stalock isn't exactly future starter potential for them, so it makes sense to maximize a couple of assets right now.

The biggest concern here is the salary cap. The Leafs either need to send some salary to Minnesota or find a way to shed it somehow. I used a creative example, this may not be the answer. Cap space is the biggest issue to making adds, and since we saw a full year of 6.25 was worth a 1st round pick, I'm unsure of what a partial year of 4.5 is worth, and that's likely not enough.

Just trying to get some conversation going and see some outside of the box options. Have a great day all!

Trades

TOR

MIN

Bracco, Jeremy
Der-Arguchintsev, Semyon
2021 3rd round pick (TOR)

TOR

2020 7th round pick (LAK)

LAK

Ceci, Cody
2020 4th round pick (TOR)
2021 4th round pick (TOR)

Buyouts

Mikhail Grabovski: $0

Retained Salary Transactions

Phil Kessel: $1,200,000 (15%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2020
2021
2022

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$81,500,000	$80,657,143	$0	$70,000	$842,857

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Johnsson, Andreas $3,400,000$3,400,000 LW, RW UFA - 4	Matthews, Auston $11,634,000$11,634,000 C UFA - 5	Nylander, William $6,962,366$6,962,366 RW UFA - 5
Mikheyev, Ilya $925,000$925,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Tavares, John $11,000,000$11,000,000 C, LW NMC UFA - 6	Marner, Mitchell $10,893,000$10,893,000 RW UFA - 6
Hyman, Zach $2,250,000$2,250,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 2	Kerfoot, Alexander $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, C, RW UFA - 4	Kapanen, Kasperi $3,200,000$3,200,000 RW UFA - 3
	Shore, Nick $750,000$750,000 C UFA - 1	Timashov, Dmytro $694,444$694,444 ($70,000$70K) LW UFA - 1
Petan, Nicolas $775,000$775,000 C, LW, RW UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Rielly, Morgan $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD UFA - 3	Pateryn, Greg $2,250,000$2,250,000 RD UFA - 2	Andersen, Frederik $5,000,000$5,000,000 G M-NTC UFA - 2
Muzzin, Jake $4,000,000$4,000,000 LD UFA - 1
Dermott, Travis $863,333$863,333 LD/RD UFA - 1	Barrie, Tyson $2,750,000$2,750,000 RD UFA - 1	Stalock, Alex $785,000$785,000 G UFA - 3
	Holl, Justin $675,000$675,000 RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Spezza, Jason $700,000$700,000 C, RW NTC UFA - 1	Moore, Trevor $775,000$775,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Horton, Nathan $5,300,000$5,300,000 RW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1
Gauthier, Frédérik $675,000$675,000 C UFA - 1		Clarkson, David $5,250,000$5,250,000 RW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1

Dec. 3, 2019 at 9:07 a.m.

mokumboi

Joined: Apr. 2019

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Wow, that Ceci trade is a new level of crazy.

Dec. 3, 2019 at 9:11 a.m.

newballcoach

Thread Starter

Joined: May 2019

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Quoting: mokumboi

Wow, that Ceci trade is a new level of crazy.

Thanks!!!

He has no trade value, that much is apparent. The question is, if you want to improve other parts of the roster, how do you do that staying under the cap? Even though he has been a serviceable player, his cap hit versus his production is the issue. If he is signed at Hyman's level, I don't think this is an issue at all.

Dec. 3, 2019 at 9:12 a.m.

Emoon

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Quoting: newballcoach

Gotta trade ceci, but he's probably worth a mid-round pick

Dec. 3, 2019 at 9:18 a.m.

newballcoach

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Quoting: Emoon

Gotta trade ceci, but he's probably worth a mid-round pick

TBH, if he was worth that, Ottawa probably would have moved him for that last year. I don't doubt that he has built some value back up, but with his cap hit I certainly don't think he's an asset that teams are going to be willing to spend for.

Not to mention, any team that wants blueline help probably can't fit him under the cap. If the Leafs want to upgrade, this is probably the way. It also allows them to run a full bench which is a nice plus.

Dec. 3, 2019 at 9:46 a.m.

Trevorchef

Joined: Jan. 2018

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Ceci has very little trade value because of his skill set, (bottom pairing guy), and his cap hit. (2 million dollars heavy at least for what he actually provides). This is a tough trade to make because of those two factors. The Leafs will have to attach "something" of value to him in order to move him.

Now, that being said, the rest of the trades don't solve anything beyond the Leafs backup goalie situation because Pateryn is not a top pairing defensman and also currently on LTIR.

Dec. 3, 2019 at 12:42 p.m.

JayTea

14m in dead cap

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The Wild aren't trading Stalock. They had a rough start, but they're in the playoff conversation now and that's largely thanks to Stalock providing stability for them. As much as I'd love to see them sell off assets and rebuild, that won't happen this year.

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