Murray for Mrazek

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Created by: tmlfan93

Team: 2021-22 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 4, 2022

Published: Jan. 4, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

I believe this trade could work for Ottawa and Toronto. Ottawa gets out from a bad contact, and gets a chance at a goalie when healthy usually plays well enough to be a #1. Toronto gets the cap relief from unloading Mrazek, and gets a goalie in Murray who has connections to Dubas. Might be a gamble for the Leafs, but Murray as a back up at 1.5m isn't bad.

If Ottawa is willing to take Ritchie...maybe we can throw them a pick and a prospect for their troubles.

Free Agent Signings

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Murray, Matt		3	$1,562,500

Trades

TOR

Murray, Matt ($3,125,000 retained)

Additional Details:

Ottawa pays for the additional picks to cover the extra 50% reduction beyond their 50%

OTT

Mrázek, Petr

Retained Salary Transactions

Phil Kessel: $1,200,000 (15%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2022
2023
2024

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
20	$81,500,000	$77,795,616	$0	$400,000	$3,704,384

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Bunting, Michael $950,000$950,000 LW UFA - 2	Matthews, Auston $11,640,250$11,640,250 C UFA - 3	Marner, Mitchell $10,903,000$10,903,000 RW UFA - 4
Kerfoot, Alexander $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, C, RW UFA - 2	Tavares, John $11,000,000$11,000,000 C, LW NMC UFA - 4	Nylander, William $6,962,366$6,962,366 RW UFA - 3
Mikheyev, Ilya $1,645,000$1,645,000 LW, RW UFA - 1		Kase, Ondrej $1,250,000$1,250,000 RW UFA - 1
Engvall, Pierre $1,250,000$1,250,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Kämpf, David $1,500,000$1,500,000 C UFA - 2	Simmonds, Wayne $900,000$900,000 RW, LW NTC UFA - 2
	Spezza, Jason $750,000$750,000 C, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Muzzin, Jake $5,625,000$5,625,000 LD NTC UFA - 3	Brodie, TJ $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD/RD NTC UFA - 3
Rielly, Morgan $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD NMC UFA - 1	Holl, Justin $2,000,000$2,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Campbell, Jack $1,650,000$1,650,000 G UFA - 1
	Liljegren, Timothy $863,333$863,333 ($400,000$400K) RD RFA - 1	Murray, Matt $1,562,500$1,562,500
Sandin, Rasmus $894,167$894,167 LD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Murray, Matt $1,562,500$1,562,500 G M-NTC UFA - 3

Taxi Squad
Hutchinson, Michael $725,000$725,000 ($0$0$0$0) G UFA - 1
Ritchie, Nick $2,500,000$2,500,000 ($1,375,000$1M$1,375,000$1M) LW UFA - 2
Dermott, Travis $1,500,000$1,500,000 ($375,000$375K$375,000$375K) LD/RD UFA - 2
Biega, Alex $750,000$750,000 ($0$0$0$0) RD UFA - 1

Jan. 4, 2022 at 3:06 a.m.

justaBoss

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I don't think OTT wants to pay $3M of Murray's contract for the next three years for nothing. Buying him out is way cheaper.

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Jan. 4, 2022 at 3:11 a.m.

Ledge_And_Dairy

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No shot Ottawa does that

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Jan. 4, 2022 at 6:34 a.m.

silentfox1

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Why wouldn't Ottawa just buy him out?

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Jan. 4, 2022 at 7:58 a.m.

exo2769

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It says "Ottawa pays for the additional picks" , but I don't see any picks going to OTT. So I guess maybe they'd do it if there were a couple 1sts going to OTT for eating ~$8m in cap and ~$9m in salary.

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Jan. 4, 2022 at 8:25 a.m.

JaredOfLondon

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nah the leafs will just stick with the goalie who is good when healthy

Jan. 4, 2022 at 8:30 a.m.

sensonfire

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Poorly thought out post.

Try again.

Jan. 4, 2022 at 8:31 a.m.

exo2769

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Quoting: JaredOfLondon

nah the leafs will just stick with the goalie who is good when healthy

Jack Campbell

Jan. 4, 2022 at 9:03 a.m.

Goulet

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Ottawa is better off with Murray. They've got awhile before they're actually going to be competitive, might as well pick high.

Jan. 4, 2022 at 9:38 a.m.

TheBoyDuddus

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In no world does it make sense for Ottawa to eat 3m/year off Murray AND take on 3.8m/year in Mrazek.

This has exactly 0% chance of happening.

Jan. 4, 2022 at 11:41 a.m.

#10

HollywoodHudon

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And no way Mrazek waives his NTC to go to OTT.

Jan. 4, 2022 at 3:10 p.m.

#11

Xspyrit

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As some already hinted, Ottawa will buy out Murray, it's pretty much written in the sky

My guess is Murray signs a 1 M$ reclamation contract next summer on a team with a solid goalie and proper NHL defense/structure and he does well with them (if not diminished by injuries of course)

He has a pretty long injury history already though so it's also possible that his body doesn't allow him to perform at a high level anymore.

Quoting: Goulet

Ottawa is better off with Murray. They've got awhile before they're actually going to be competitive, might as well pick high.

Matt Murray is a symptom of what is the result of HORRIBLE management

Dorion is actually smarter than I thought as he perfectly deflected blame from him with this Murray situation. people are gullible and falling for it

Ottawa has some pretty good young players (Chabot, Batherson, Norris, Tkachuk, Stutzle, Zub, Formenton) but literally nothing behind them outside of Connor Brown who is the ONLY quality veteran support. This is actually a crime against them. Nobody has thrown young players to the wolves like that since the Oilers did 15 years ago.

Bring in a real NHL GM and I'm convinced he'd make that team really competitive in a short period of time. Coaching, veteran support and depth are needed. That being said, it might take new ownership to have a future again so we're still waiting for that.

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