Team: 2020-21 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: Sep. 1, 2020

Published: Sep. 1, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Mitch Marner is a great player but Leafs have some cap issues AND need some prospects. Based on reports more teams will have internal caps.... which makes Marner more valuable. enter Ottawa.

Marner will have been paid $30.3M before the start of next season. That means he is Owed, just over $35M/5 years. So ~7mil/year at an 11Mil cap hit. But if you take back Anisimov and Gaborik, gives OTT an increase of 4.5-9Mil in CASH depending on how/if Gaborik has insurance. And based on Mylneks history, he nickle and dimes a lot.

Freddie - if you kept Freddie, I assume the leafs would just give up the penguins pick in the Hamilton trade and then a Freddie extension next year would be around the same. But with his name out there so much, there is a lot of smoke for there not be some truth.

OTT gets better, makes noise, generates some revenue for the owner, so great. Leafs get cap space and a box of magic beans which MAY one day be as good as Mitch.

I keep Hearing the flames are interested in Andersen, seems like there is a lot of smoke there. Whether it is the flames or someone else, I assume Dubas will want a high first, B prospect and then take goalie back.

TSN and others are saying that Hamilton. Not sure why, but ugh sure.. is that anywhere close to fair value. I actually have no idea. My guess is its probably the Leafs may need to add. but

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