Turning a few New Leafs

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Created by: timetosaygoodbye

Team: 2017-18 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 8, 2017

Published: Jun. 8, 2017

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Scott Laughton and Zach Hyman are very similar players, but the difference is that Laughton is a natural center and could fill the Leafs fourth line center role, which would make Hyman expendable considering he's a winger and Philly could use that as well.

Hamonic had a rough year but I'm counting on a bounce back. Right-handed defensemen with term are expensive, so I think adding a few solid depth pieces on top of a 25-30 goal scorer should be enough to get him. You also have to think of the Expansion Draft, and by adding Carrick it potentially protects Ryan Pulock from being taken as George McPhee drafted Connor Carrick and would probably want to take him if he were available in this scenario.

This is also done before the Expansion Draft. The Leafs receive Ilya Kovalchuk's rights for Kerby Rychel. Kovalchuk is obviously JVR's replacement and as long as he can fill the net between 23-30 times over the next two years it'll be worth it.

Also, I believe that when the Leafs mentioned after the season (Lou mentioned this in an interview) how they believed a particular defenseman would be ready to make the transition to the Leafs full-time, I think they meant Justin Holl NOT Travis Dermott, (who is probably another year away) which is why I re-signed Hunwick to a 1 year deal.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Holl, Justin	1	$650,000
Hyman, Zach	3	$1,300,000
Brown, Connor	2	$2,300,000
Laughton, Scott	2	$1,500,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Hunwick, Matt	1	$1,500,000
Kovalchuk, Ilya	2	$6,250,000
Johnson, Chad	2	$2,000,000
Marleau, Patrick	2	$6,000,000

Trades

TOR

Scott Laughton

PHI

Hyman, Zach
2019 5th round pick (TOR)

TOR

Hamonic, Travis

NYI

TOR

Expansion Draft

VGK

Leivo, Josh

TOR

Ilya Kovalchuk

NJD

Rychel, Kerby

Buyouts

Tim Gleason: $1,333,333
Jared Cowen: $750,000
Mikhail Grabovski: $0

Retained Salary Transactions

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

Buried

Eric Fehr: $975,000 ($2,000,000)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2017
2018
2019

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$73,000,000	$73,398,809	$5,370,000	$4,675,000	-$398,809

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Marleau, Patrick $6,000,000$6,000,000 LW, C UFA - 3	Matthews, Auston $925,000$925,000 ($2,850,000$3M) C UFA - 2	Nylander, William $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) RW UFA - 1
Komarov, Leo $2,950,000$2,950,000 RW, LW, C UFA - 1	Kadri, Nazem $4,500,000$4,500,000 C UFA - 5	Brown, Connor $2,300,000$2,300,000 RW, LW UFA - 3
Kovalchuk, Ilya $6,250,000$6,250,000	Bozak, Tyler $4,200,000$4,200,000 C, RW M-NTC UFA - 1	Marner, Mitchell $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) RW UFA - 2
Martin, Matt $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 3		Kapanen, Kasperi $863,333$863,333 RW UFA - 2
Soshnikov, Nikita $736,666$736,666 ($125,000$125K) RW UFA - 1	Laughton, Scott $1,500,000$1,500,000 C, LW UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Rielly, Morgan $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD UFA - 5	Hamonic, Travis $3,857,143$3,857,143 RD UFA - 3	Andersen, Frederik $5,000,000$5,000,000 G M-NTC UFA - 4
Gardiner, Jake $4,050,000$4,050,000 LD UFA - 2	Zaitsev, Nikita $4,500,000$4,500,000 RD UFA - 7
Hunwick, Matt $1,500,000$1,500,000 LD UFA - 3	Holl, Justin $650,000$650,000 RD UFA - 1	Johnson, Chad $2,000,000$2,000,000 G UFA - 1
Marincin, Martin $1,250,000$1,250,000 LD UFA - 1	Marchenko, Alexey $1,450,000$1,450,000 RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Lupul, Joffrey $5,250,000$5,250,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 1
		Horton, Nathan $5,300,000$5,300,000 RW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3

Jun. 8, 2017 at 2:16 p.m.

joshelkin

Islanders Fan

Joined: May 2016

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I think the Isles would accept that trade

Jun. 8, 2017 at 2:56 p.m.

NateElder12

Joined: Apr. 2016

Posts: 5,736

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I guess the Flyers would take that deal. Depends on the price that Hyman will sign for though. Laughton probably only signs for 850k and 950k max. If Hyman is looking at over $2M the Flyers pass.

Jun. 8, 2017 at 9:12 p.m.

tmljk22

Joined: Mar. 2017

Posts: 371

Likes: 134

The Islanders will not take that deal this year. They are most likely losing Tavares next season and will have no team to build around without Hamonic.

Jun. 9, 2017 at 5:33 p.m.

MattyMadden28

VeryLeafy

Joined: Aug. 2016

Posts: 678

Likes: 28

Fair post but I don't think harmonic is very good to be honest. He would help this team as they are weak on D but I would target other players first. He had about as many points as Martin. He's a lot closer to Carrick then people would think. I'm not sure how good Laughton is but I'm sure that Hyman is better as he at least was effective in the NHL already but I understand the logic.

Jun. 10, 2017 at 11:46 a.m.

K1NGB0B

Joined: Jan. 2017

Posts: 124

Likes: 3

Too much for Hamonic he is overvalued. Team that gets Kovy will have to give up a 2nd rounder at least. No way Lou signs an aged veteran to a 6mill/year deal. Hyman deal makes sense but Babcock likes him so unlikely hes traded.

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