You’re way short on Necas and bear deals. The Fiala trade is rejected by canes and they’re gonna extend him and not sign malkin

Why are the leafs taking on a bad contract atthr deadline?

Gardiner is out for the year, this would be their way of acquiring more cap space. This isn't aimed at you specifically, but I wish people would research this stuff before they commented.

Also, judging by the fact the trade is for Hampus Lindholm, I'm assuming the team is meant to be Anaheim

Yes, thank you. My mistake. I had original had a similar trade for Morgan Rielly but changed it to Hampus Lindholm since I figured the Ducks were probably more likely to be selling at deadline. Jake Gardiner may be on LTIR all year and then has reasonable buy-out the following year. Including him in deal is a cap space move.

If he has back surgery this summer, he's an LTIRetirement

Any report on this?

"For the year" is doing a lot of work here, what about next year? Does this do cap magic for then too?

Yeah, look it up on twitter. There's loads of them.

If he has back surgery this summer, it's very unlikely he plays again. And even if he does, it's the same money he was making in toronto in the first place.

If "loads" means literally nothing, then yes.

Look up Sara civ, it's from about a month ago now

Except that if he does make it back, he's awful now and the leafs dont need him even if he's 'ok'.
And just because you have a guy ltir it doesnt gift you magical cap space, there are a whole bunch of strings attached

Strings that the leafs have because they spend 40 million on 4 players and need help elsewhere....

If Gardiner is LTIR, or has surgery and is recovering from it, he can't be bought out. It's against the CBA. Then if he comes back to the lineup, any team is screwed for cap space.

But I wish people would research this stuff before they commented.

He can be bought out once he's deemed healthy. That is IN the CBA. He doesn't have to play before that. Just has to be declared healthy by team doctors

But I wish people would research this stuff before they commented

No, strings that exist so teams dont just throw every problem contract in ltir like its an agm.

You literally just said if he has surgery this off-season then he's "LTIRetirement", in other words you're deeming him non healthy to ever play again. The league has to approve buyouts and if the suspect it's circumventing the cap in any form, they won't.

You also think it's gonna cost only a mediocre prospect and a 2nd rounder to dump 2 years of $4M cap hit? Carolina charged Toronto a 1st for 1 year of a $6M cap hit. If you don't mention a 1st in that kinda deal by your own teams standards then get outta here.

These kids these days. Take your own advice. Do you research first.

Okay? Those strings still fit the leafs in this situation, and gardiner is legitimately undergoing back surgery... he's going to be LTIRed

It's 1 year, he's LTIRed this year, that's the point. And Gunler is one of the best prospects in the Canes organization buddy. You really should look into this stuff.

Also, please learn to read. I said if he has the back surgery, he's an LTIRetirement. If he comes back, the buyout is like a mil. Either way, not a lot.

Guess you can't read you're own writing or mine? So take your own advice again and learn to read. Cause I literally said that you said "if he's had surgery then he's LTIRetirement", don't know how much clearer that could have been 😂

Also, sorry to hurt your feelings there kid but just because you think Gunler is one of Carolina's best prospects (not saying he is or isn't), but that doesn't make him any more of a mediocre prospect. He wouldn't even crack the top 50 prospects in the league, likely not the top 100 either. So he's still mediocre.

Okay, they really dont fit the leafs situation if he comes back healthy next year and the leafs have a 4 mill boat anchor they dont need or want

I would bet money that Gards isn't out for the year. According to Adam Gold, a decently reliable source for Canes info, Carolina wants Gardiner to get a back surgery but Gardiner doesn't think he needs it. I'm not sure how those conflicts work out. Even if he gets the surgery this report makes it sound like he still wants to play and I'm not sure the surgery will take him out for a full 82 game season

Sorry to prove you wrong, but Gunler is ranked 32nd among Forward prospects, and is rated as the 3rd best prospect in the organization after Jarvis and Suzuki (Elite Prospects)

If he comes back, it's a 1 mil buyout. If he doesn't it's 4 mil in cap. For that you gain one of the best shooting prospects league wide. That's well worth it, learn to read buddy!

Buy him out, it would use up less than the cap is going up by...

Thanks for proving me right! So Gunler isn't a top 50, because by the time you add in defenceman and goalies that pushes him out of the top 50. But nice try only using forwards to try to validate your opinion. Better luck next time kid!

Oh and Gardiner's buyout is just over $1M in the first year and $1.4M in the second year. Takes more than a mediocre prospect and pick for that. Cap space is king. Try again some other days though bud!