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Created by: AnalyticsGeek

Team: 2020-21 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: Oct. 9, 2020

Published: Oct. 9, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Gonna try and make a contending team without moving any of the core players.

Free Agent Signings

RFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Mikheyev, Ilya		1	$1,500,000
Dermott, Travis		1	$925,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Clifford, Kyle	1	$1,500,000
Martin, Matt	1	$1,500,000
Crawford, Corey	2	$3,000,000
Perry, Corey	2	$700,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Marner, Mitchell		1	$9,000,000

Trades

TOR

Ekblad, Aaron

FLA

Robertson, Nicholas
Sandin, Rasmus
2021 1st round pick (TOR)
2022 1st round pick (TOR)

TOR

2023 2nd round pick (SJS)

SJS

Johnsson, Andreas

TOR

2021 2nd round pick (CAR)
2021 3rd round pick (CAR)

CAR

Andersen, Frederik

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
2021
2022
2023

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$81,500,000	$81,465,949	$0	$400,000	$34,051

Roster

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 $9,000,000$9,000,000
Mikheyev, Ilya $1,500,000$1,500,000 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
Engvall, Pierre $1,250,000$1,250,000 RW, LW UFA - 2	Kerfoot, Alexander $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, C, RW UFA - 3	Martin, Matt $1,500,000$1,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 4
Clifford, Kyle $1,500,000$1,500,000 LW UFA - 2	Spezza, Jason $700,000$700,000 C, RW UFA - 1	Simmonds, Wayne $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW, LW NTC UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Rielly, Morgan $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 2	Ekblad, Aaron $7,500,000$7,500,000 RD UFA - 5	Crawford, Corey $3,000,000$3,000,000 G UFA - 2
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	Campbell, Jack $1,650,000$1,650,000 G UFA - 2
Dermott, Travis $925,000$925,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Liljegren, Timothy $863,333$863,333 ($400,000$400K) RD RFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Perry, Corey $700,000$700,000 RW UFA - 1		Marner, Mitchell $10,903,000$10,903,000 RW UFA - 5
Marincin, Martin $700,000$700,000 LD UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Nylander, W.		Tavares, J.		Matthews, A.
	Marner, M.		Rielly, M.

Power Play 2
Hyman, Z.		Kerfoot, A.		Simmonds, W.
	Spezza, J.		Ekblad, A.

Penalty Kill 1
	Clifford, K.	Martin, M.
	Muzzin, J.	Ekblad, A.

Penalty Kill 2
	Mikheyev, I.	Hyman, Z.
	Dermott, T.	Holl, J.

Oct. 9, 2020 at 3:21 p.m.

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Jdubs44

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Quoting: MitchMarnerElite

Sorry for the mention guys, but what'd y'all think of this team? Are they legit contenders?

Why are changing marners contract you can’t do that can you I don’t get what you’re doing there

Oct. 9, 2020 at 3:53 p.m.

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Quoting: Eli

I think Fla passes, but yeah. If Crawford is healthy, they're good. If you're gonna redo Marner's contract, assuming he gets eight years? But that just doesn't work under the "create a player" button?

Third pair is still not as good as Tampa's last year, but Tampa's won't be either.

Thanks for the feedback. I haven't decided the term for a redo of Marner's contract, just feel his value is 9 million.

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Oct. 9, 2020 at 3:56 p.m.

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Quoting: Rooney

I like the team! Trade values seem okay as well. I would probably play Perry in Martin's spot and move Martin to Clifford's spot and not re-sign him. Instead, sign 2 players for league minimum so you can have a full 23 man roster. Also, what is going on with Marner's contract?

Quoting: palhal

Horrid trade for Eckblad. Heck you can get spend 7.5m on UFA,,,,and keep Sandin, Robertson and the two first rounders. What's with the Marner LTIR and then signing?

Quoting: Ryminister_27

Fat no from Toronto. They aren't giving up the farm system for 1 guy. That's not their method (nor should it be).

Am why am I seeing multiple posts about Marner re-doing a contract? Makes no sense

The basic idea is to terminate Marner's current deal and make him sign a deal one that has a lower cap hit but similar total earnings (he's not making that much now after being paid his bonus). IDK if the league will allow it or if Marner agrees but that's what I want.

Oct. 9, 2020 at 3:56 p.m.

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Quoting: MitchMarnerElite

The basic idea is to terminate Marner's current deal and make him sign a deal one that has a lower cap hit but similar total earnings (he's not making that much now after being paid his bonus).

Quoting: Jdubs44

Why are changing marners contract you can’t do that can you I don’t get what you’re doing there

Oct. 9, 2020 at 3:58 p.m.

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Quoting: pharrow

not with that defense.
you added grit on the bottom 6...but can they actually play hockey?

Yeah I feel most of the grit guys in that bottom 6 (Engvall, Clifford, Perry and Martin) can still contribute. Simmonds is the only one I doubt, lots of guys are saying he's washed.

Oct. 9, 2020 at 3:59 p.m.

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Quoting: Gordon_Bombay

Not sure.

Below average goalies

And absolutley not sustainable.

I am very much against trading ELC players. Rather let those players push out Johnsson, Kerfoot or Dermott.

Plus. Lehtonen over Dermott any day of the week

Thanks for letting me know your thoughts. I think goaltending is good, Crawford led the league in high danger save percentage this season. I get your point about the ELC players, it's just, I don't feel Johnsson, Kerfoot and Dermott have enough value to fetch Ekblad, so I traded Robertson and Sandin.

Oct. 9, 2020 at 4:00 p.m.

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Quoting: Leafs_and_Sens_Fan

Too much for Ekblad. You're a big fan of cap space. Your giving them 6.5M in cap space and our 2 top prospects (who are probably worth top 10 picks) plus 2 more 1sts...

There goes our future...

Quoting: hamzamohammad

Dude that's an insane overpayment for Ekblad.

2 1sts, plus a top 10 d prospect, top 10 winger prospect.

Not good value at all for the leafs and kills our prospect pool completely

Quoting: KileDoobis

way too much for ekblad. what's the deal with the marner contract? I don't want to give up a second just to resign clifford. Team looks alright. Still not cup contenders imo

Quoting: Jack_

Way too much for Ekblad. They cant be having Martin on their 3rd line either. Trading rielly for Ekblad would make so much more sense

Thanks for the feedback, I agree it is a lot to give up. Will be exploring a Rielly for Ekblad trade in the future.

Oct. 9, 2020 at 4:34 p.m.

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Quoting: MitchMarnerElite

Make him sign it? Why would he do that?

Also, the Leafs can't just terminate the contract if they won't to. Marner has to either breach the conditions of the contract, or both sides agree to mutually terminate it. Neither are happening. & I'm pretty sure if it did happen, the league wouldn't let Toronto re-sign him at a lower cap hit

Oct. 9, 2020 at 5:06 p.m.

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Quoting: MitchMarnerElite

I just don't think it is worth to give up that much. Giving up the future for a big maybe. If you want to trade someone for a star D, trade Marner

Oct. 9, 2020 at 5:28 p.m.

#35

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Future top pair D + Future top line winger + 2 firsts is too much. As much as I love Ekblad I'm not willing to pay this much

Oct. 9, 2020 at 5:40 p.m.

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Eli

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Quoting: MitchMarnerElite

To mutually terminate the contract it has to actually be mutual. I think for his agent to advise him to mess with it, they're gonna want to earn more total money, even if it's over more time.

Oct. 9, 2020 at 10:45 p.m.

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Clifford, Martin and Simmonds? Yikes

Oct. 10, 2020 at 9:47 a.m.

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gretzkyghosts

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Adding Ekblad to a team that has Tavares, Marner, Nylander, Matthews, Reilly, and Muzzin makes this a very good team.
IDK if Florida would accept that trade but considering the picks should be among the last 4 it is not too much for him.
You are obviously using creative financing to make the cap space, which may be just fine, IDK.
Creative ideas

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