Team: 2020-21 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: Oct. 21, 2020

Published: Oct. 21, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

This is what I imagine the leafs will start with. The top six is pretty self explanatory, Kerfoot is probably the 3C and him and Vesey have chemistry from college which puts Vesey as the 3LW, as for Barabanov, I think he’s a better fit on the third line then Simmonds as he can keep up with the other guys and to be honest he might even be better then Simmonds. As for the fourth line, it would be just awesome to see these three guys together on the fourth line for obvious reasons, they would be slow as hell but could be useful in a lot of different situations.
For the defence Brodie and Reilly are obvious, and although I’d rather trade Holl and have Dermott and Muzzin as a pairing it seems that Holl will be staying in the top four. The bottom pairing would be great as Dermott can easily be a top four guy and Lehtonen probably can to. Bogo will come in occasionally for certain matchups and likely sub out Lehtonen. There’s plenty of depth options at both forward and d (I could see Robertson, Korshkov, Anderson, Sandin, and Lilijgren all breaking through at some point this season) and the only issue about that will be how many we lose to waivers when the year starts. Overall this is the deepest leafs team in years and it’s something to be excited about.