Considering Free Agents

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Created by: Leafs_Storm

Team: 2020-21 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 9, 2020

Published: Jul. 9, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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Not going to go crazy and get a Pietrangelo (it won't happen), but taking a look at some possibilities.

I considered Chris Tanev, but I feel like he will end up staying in Vancouver, and his injury history is too concerning to give a long contract like he might want.
T.J. Brodie and Travis Hamonic are both likely UFAs off of Calgary, so they could use a Dman in Dermott in the trade, but Brodie's results have been sub-par away from Giordano, and personally I've never been too high on Hamonic (although I know the Leafs did try to trade for him and Brodie before in different trades). Ultimately, acquiring either of them would've forced a trade for Kerfoot as well, and for now I kept trades to a minimum.

Gudas has consistently driven play in his career, although primarily on the 3rd pair. Giving him top 4 minutes is a risk that he may not be up to the task, but a 2-year deal doesn't carry much long-term risk, and he can PK and provide physicality and a veteran presence that may help on the right side of the ice.

If people think I traded Johnsson or Dermott for too much in return, or to the wrong teams, they are both just cap dump trades ultimately, but they should both fetch at least a 2nd so I went for teams who could use a scoring forward and a young defenseman.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Gauthier, Frédérik	2	$750,000
Dermott, Travis	2	$1,500,000
Mikheyev, Ilya	2	$1,550,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Spezza, Jason		1	$750,000
Gudas, Radko		2	$2,000,000

Trades

TOR

2020 5th round pick (ARI)
2021 2nd round pick (ARI)

ARI

Johnsson, Andreas

TOR

2020 2nd round pick (CGY)
2022 3rd round pick (CGY)

CGY

Dermott, Travis

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
23	$81,500,000	$81,409,783	$0	$400,000	$90,217

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Hyman, Zach $2,250,000$2,250,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 1	Matthews, Auston $11,640,250$11,640,250 C UFA - 4	Marner, Mitchell $10,903,000$10,903,000 RW UFA - 5
Mikheyev, Ilya $1,550,000$1,550,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Tavares, John $11,000,000$11,000,000 C, LW NMC UFA - 5	Nylander, William $6,962,366$6,962,366 RW UFA - 4
Robertson, Nicholas $821,667$821,667 LW, RW RFA - 4	Kerfoot, Alexander $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, C, RW UFA - 3	Kapanen, Kasperi $3,200,000$3,200,000 RW UFA - 2
Engvall, Pierre $1,250,000$1,250,000 RW, LW UFA - 2		Barabanov, Alexander $925,000$925,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
	Spezza, Jason $750,000$750,000 C, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Muzzin, Jake $5,625,000$5,625,000 LD NMC UFA - 4	Holl, Justin $2,000,000$2,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 3	Andersen, Frederik $5,000,000$5,000,000 G M-NTC UFA - 1
Rielly, Morgan $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 2	Gudas, Radko $2,000,000$2,000,000 RD UFA - 3	Campbell, Jack $1,650,000$1,650,000 G UFA - 2
Sandin, Rasmus $894,167$894,167 LD UFA - 2	Lehtonen, Mikko $925,000$925,000 LD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Gauthier, Frédérik $750,000$750,000 C UFA - 1
Liljegren, Timothy $863,333$863,333 ($400,000$400K) RD RFA - 2
Rosén, Calle $750,000$750,000 LD UFA - 1

Jul. 9, 2020 at 12:58 p.m.

bhavikp27

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Gudas will get more $.

Jul. 9, 2020 at 12:58 p.m.

Ledge_And_Dairy

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No from Calgary not moving our 2nd for another LD. Yes i know he is capable of playing the right side but not at the top 4 level we are looking for

Jul. 9, 2020 at 1:15 p.m.

OldNYIfan

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I think that there are too many teams weak at RD for Gudas to get less than $3 million for 3 years.

Jul. 9, 2020 at 1:15 p.m.

Trickster

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With a flat cap Gudas is too much of risk.
And trading Dermott is non starter for me.

Both Gudas and Jensen were really bad this year.

I am actually in favour of keeping Johnsson and trading Kerfoot but only if we can get another 3rd line C.

Jul. 9, 2020 at 4:36 p.m.

Leafs_Storm

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Quoting: Trickster

I also would like to keep Dermott and see if he can move into the top 4 as a RD, and am bigger on Johnsson than Kerfoot. For this theoretical one though, I'm going with no new 3C emerging, so Johnsson out, and the idea was to get a RD so Dermott out made it work better.

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Jul. 9, 2020 at 4:37 p.m.

Leafs_Storm

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Quoting: Ledge_And_Dairy

No from Calgary not moving our 2nd for another LD. Yes i know he is capable of playing the right side but not at the top 4 level we are looking for

Fair enough, I think he should get at least a 2nd; he's a 23 year old Dman who can play 2nd pair LD (we don't know about top-4 RD yet, but even if not), but if that's too much some other team would likely bite on it in a cap world if he's going for under 2M.

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Jul. 9, 2020 at 4:39 p.m.

Ledge_And_Dairy

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Quoting: Leafs_Storm

Flames already have Gio, Hanifin, and Valimaki who would be better suited for the top 2 LD spots and then Kylington who is about the same

Jul. 9, 2020 at 4:39 p.m.

Leafs_Storm

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Quoting: OldNYIfan

I think that there are too many teams weak at RD for Gudas to get less than $3 million for 3 years.

When we consider that only 5 teams finished 2019-2020 with over 5M in cap space, and nobody had planned for a flat cap (projections in February were for 84M as the lowest, with 88.4M as the highest for 2020-2021 per Bob McKenzie, the UFAs like Gudas are going to get squeezed. I don't doubt thta historically a team would give him at least 3x3, but he's coming off a down year, and teams are cap strapped. Taking a short contract where his physical presence will be hyped immensely by media, and maybe racking up some additional points on a high-flying offensive team, I could see him biting on a 1 or 2 year deal.

Jul. 9, 2020 at 4:41 p.m.

Leafs_Storm

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Quoting: Ledge_And_Dairy

Flames already have Gio, Hanifin, and Valimaki who would be better suited for the top 2 LD spots and then Kylington who is about the same

Fair enough, in my head i just went, Brodie/Hamonic walking, Valimaki coming up, but Gio is also late 30s, they could use young Dmen. I personally was an advocate for acquiring Rasmus Andersson since about his AHL debut, but that ship has clearly sailed. With Kylington too, maybe that's not a fit, but then there's always a team looking for Defense.

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