I don't get that logic about there is only room for one of Nylander of Kapanen. I'll take the best 14 forwards on my team, and worry about paying them later. Obviously there is plenty of cap room for everybody now. That's a really big sweetener just to dump Orpik. I think other teams would take him for a lesser price to the Caps.

Giving Ben Smith a contract is a gross over payment so why in the hell are you giving him so much?

But there isn't any logic to what you just said. No offense but that doesn't really how things work. In the NHL you can't 'take the best 14 forwards on the team, and worry about paying them later.' You will get killed by the cap. You have to take everything into account. Players want their share of the pie as well. TBH I don't even think the Leafs will trade either of them until like two, three years from now. I know it sorta contradicts to what I wrote earlier but maybe it would be better to keep them both until their value grows even more so you can get a better and bigger return.

The reason I did that is because;

1) It's a one-year contract
2) They have loads of money left over
3) Depth signing

By your roster, the Leafs have 18m in cap space, does it make sense that maybe a future top line forward is traded (Nylander) cause Kapanen might make the team next year? What's Nylander gonna make 2m next year? The following year does Matthews get traded cause Gauthier is gonna get a centre position.?

What? Think about what you just said.

It's not only about next year. It's about the years after as well. And Nylander is gonna make a lot more than 2 million. If the Leafs are willing to keep him long-term, then the smart thing to do is lock him up for at least 6 years.

The fact that you even said that last sentence, only means that you don't understand how it works. I'm not even talking about how you have to trade someone because someone else is coming up. All I'm saying is that you have to look towards the long-term as well and not get blindsided by the short-term because of all the contracts and thinking it will be easy to keep everyone (i.e Chicago).

You're fumbling over your own words here....your original trades lack sense as well as your arguments for making them.
BTW....giving Ben Smith 1.7 when he is a fringe nhl player would get any Gm fired...if you want to spend mone, then sign an actual upgrade to the position...

Please elaborate.

And Smith for one-year for 1.7 as a depth signing when the team has 18m in cap space left is not going to hurt the team. Yes maybe I added too much but the fact is that they have space for such signings.

Ughhh you managed to make the Leafs worse. If the Leafs were to sign Ben Smith to a league minimum contract I would be disappointed, over the summer they should be able to find someone better then him. Kalinin was literally a move to help the Marlies, he is basically a fringe player who will be most likely be back in the KHL next year, not sure why the Leafs would give him a raise and a two year contract. The leafs should not retain any money on JVR no matter what the trade.

I don't think I made them worse at all. Your opinion isn't very validated. I just signed Ben Smith because he was on the Leafs roster. I'm sure they can sign someone better. Kalinin's move was to be made with the Marlies. The Leafs will be just fine with retaining his contract because it's only a year left. Just look at the Kessel deal. If they want a better return then they will have to retain some of his contract.

I don't think I made them worse at all. Your opinion isn't very validated. I just signed Ben Smith because he was on the Leafs roster. I'm sure they can sign someone better. Kalinin's move was to be made with the Marlies. The Leafs will be just fine with retaining his contract because it's only a year left. Just look at the Kessel deal. If they want a better return then they will have to retain some of his contract.

I don't think I made them worse at all. Your opinion isn't very validated. I just signed Ben Smith because he was on the Leafs roster. I'm sure they can sign someone better. Kalinin's move was to be made with the Marlies. The Leafs will be just fine with retaining his contract because it's only a year left. Just look at the Kessel deal. If they want a better return then they will have to retain some of his contract.

I don't think I made them worse at all. Your opinion isn't very validated. I just signed Ben Smith because he was on the Leafs roster. I'm sure they can sign someone better. Kalinin's move was to be made with the Marlies. The Leafs will be just fine with retaining his contract because it's only a year left. Just look at the Kessel deal. If they want a better return then they will have to retain some of his contract.

Kessel was making 8 million a season, JVR makes almost half that. Girgensons is an RFA, since there is no trade I am assuming offer sheet, I think the Sabres would match that. In your current lineup, you are replacing JVR with Leivo and Nylander with Kapanen, JVR and Nylander are then better players, hence weaker lineup. Bowey is a decent prospect but he is yet to play a single NHL game, so to plug him in with Rielly on the 1st d pair is a huge over assumption of his skill.

I just have the lines like that, it doesn't represent anything. And Leivo isn't replacing JVR. By trading JVR you are getting Bowey. Who - by the way - is not a 'decent prospect', he is in fact an amazing player. He will be a future top 2 DMan if he continues his upwards trend. You obviously haven't seen him play.