Isles match.

With what cap? You have 8M to re-sign Barzal, Pulock and Toews.

The isles can’t trade Leddy/cizikas and buyout clutterbuck?

They make the space. They make a few trades, but they are clearly going to be matching an offersheet for their top pair defenceman.

Everyone said the same with Marner last year. And Point. How many offer sheets go unmatched? Is Dustin Penner the only one? That's why teams don't even bother.

You really think they can move Leddy? Theres nothing of value to package with Leddy, Ladd, Boychuk to really entice anyone. Cizikas you could move but that isn't getting you much flexibility when you have those three guys

Isles match that offer sheet on Pulock, He'll probably get closer to 6 x 6 maybe even 6 x 7 he's a stud. And the required roster size is at least 22 players and you've 0 cap space.

Making space to accomadate all three takes more that a few little trades because these are all terrible contrats they have to move without the sweeteners to do it.

Putting leddy isn’t the same category as Ladd and boychuk is hilarious. Leddy isn’t a cap dump. One of the best D in the league at leading the rush, 50% expected goal share in the playoffs.

with what space?

didn't say he was bad, but no ones taking the 5.5M for him in a flat cap era lol

Since when are the Leafs in position to be offer sheeting any teams players? They're just as tight up against the cap as the islanders are.

You do understand that teams are aloud to make trades correct?

There’s a team that willingly gave up a 5th rd pick for Joel Edmundson and is giving him 4 mill a year and he’s terrible.

Even if the isles had to retain 1 mill (unlikely) , that’s what they’ll have to do.

So trading Leddy (1 mill retained) + trading cizikas and buying clutterbuck frees up an additional 9.5 mill in space which gives the isles 17.6 mill in cap space

but that team had space and that was a current need,

Dude just look at your own cap space situation, You've like $6m in cap space to sign 5 more players. You're not in position to be offer sheeting any other clubs RFAs.

yes, but who do you really think wants Boychuk, Leddy, Ladds contracts?

Clearly i found a way.

You’re just being straight up subjective right now because you want pulock lol. If the isles put Leddy on the market at 4.5 mill for the next 2 years, they wouldn’t have a hard time moving him. He’s having a great playoffs and GM like defenseman on good teams.

until you realize everyone is pressed up against the cap? The rebuilding teams that can afford him sure as hell wont pay for thim, and legit no contending team can afford 4.5 rn. It's a lot harder to move guys in a flat cap era then you realize dude.

No you didn't, First off a 20 man roster would never be approved by the league you need 22 man roster minimum. And you've o cap space for 2 to 3 more players. You can't run a 20 man roster over the course of a 82 game schedule you'd be burning your players out.

They don’t have to move boychuk or ladds contracts.

leafs ran 20 man this year but alright

Yeah it is a lot harder to move players in the flat cap era. Leddy would return a 2nd , possibly a first if the cap wasn’t flat. It hurts his value in a trade, but he will be moved. It’s funny how a leafs fan thinks there’s no way he gets moved , but every other day a kings fan makes an ACGM trading for leddy

Sure and then you get injuries and are screwed, Your scratches are basically your replacements.

Sorry man, but if everyone is telling you something, you might want to open to your ears and listen. It's clear no one thinks this is going to happen. Just move on.