Chaos In the T-Dot

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Created by: WarrenB

Team: 2023-24 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: May 29, 2023

Published: May 29, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Removing Marner's salary and finding a good trade partner could do wonders for the Leafs. Of course we all know recouping his value in a real trade is going to be next to impossible!

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Samsonov, Ilya	3	$4,250,000
Vilardi, Gabriel	3	$4,500,000
Holmberg, Pontus	3	$950,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Acciari, Noel	3	$1,750,000
Schenn, Luke	2	$1,250,000
Kämpf, David	2	$1,750,000
Bertuzzi, Tyler	3	$5,250,000
Barbashev, Ivan	3	$6,500,000

Trades

TOR

LAK

Marner, Mitchell

Buyouts

Matt Murray: $687,500

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2023
2024
2025

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
25	$83,500,000	$82,548,450	$0	$3,500,000	$951,550

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Knies, Matthew $925,000$925,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Matthews, Auston $11,640,250$11,640,250 C NMC UFA - 1	Nylander, William $6,962,366$6,962,366 RW NMC UFA - 1
Barbashev, Ivan $6,500,000$6,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 5	Tavares, John $11,000,000$11,000,000 C, LW NMC UFA - 2	Bertuzzi, Tyler $5,250,000$5,250,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
Robertson, Nicholas $796,667$796,667 LW, RW RFA - 1	Byfield, Quinton $894,167$894,167 ($2,650,000$3M) LW, C RFA - 1	Vilardi, Gabriel $4,500,000$4,500,000 RW, C RFA - 2
Lafferty, Sam $1,150,000$1,150,000 RW, C, LW UFA - 1	Kämpf, David $1,750,000$1,750,000 C UFA - 4	Acciari, Noel $1,750,000$1,750,000 C, RW UFA - 3
McMann, Bobby $762,500$762,500 RW, LW UFA - 1	Holmberg, Pontus $950,000$950,000 C, LW RFA - 2	Järnkrok, Calle $2,100,000$2,100,000 RW, C, LW M-NTC UFA - 3

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Rielly, Morgan $7,500,000$7,500,000 LD NMC UFA - 7	Clarke, Brandt $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) RD RFA - 3	Samsonov, Ilya $4,250,000$4,250,000 G UFA - 1
McCabe, Jake $2,000,000$2,000,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Liljegren, Timothy $1,400,000$1,400,000 RD RFA - 1	Woll, Joseph $766,667$766,667 G RFA - 2
Brodie, TJ $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 1	Schenn, Luke $1,250,000$1,250,000 RD UFA - 3
Giordano, Mark $800,000$800,000 LD UFA - 1	Timmins, Conor $1,100,000$1,100,000 RD RFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Muzzin, Jake $5,625,000$5,625,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Matthews, A.		Tavares, J.		Bertuzzi, T.
	Liljegren, T.		Nylander, W.

Power Play 2
Barbashev, I.		Byfield, Q.		Vilardi, G.
	Rielly, M.		Clarke, B.

Penalty Kill 1
	Acciari, N.	Kämpf, D.
	Brodie, T.	Schenn, L.

Penalty Kill 2
	Lafferty, S.	Matthews, A.
	Brodie, T.	Liljegren, T.

May 29, 2023 at 10:52 a.m.

OldNYIfan

Once a Kings Fan Too

Joined: Jun. 2018

Posts: 40,211

Likes: 25,127

Yep -- those are three guys the Kings won't trade and one guy the Kings won't trade for.

Marner is the worst of the Big Three for fit with Los Angeles. Whereas some arguable rationalization exists for Matthews to LA or Nylander to LA, none whatsoever exists for Marner coming here. Right now, we have $7.5 million in cap space with 7 -- count 'em, seven -- roster slots open, and since Clarke and Vilardi don't count towards the roster or the cap right now, this trade would put us $2.5 million over the cap with 8 roster slots to fill. These facts aren't my opinion -- this is inescapable numerical certainty. And adding more assets on our side to close the cap gulf just makes the problem worse.

Now aside from the cap definitiveness, let's consider the philosophical subject of roster structure. We're not going to sacrifice our future based upon building from the ground up to look like top-heavy Toronto or Edmonton, with stars whose cost is so high that it's impossible to assemble a proper supporting cast. We're doing fine; we're on the upswing. I suspect that the reason for the dozen-or-more-a-day Big Three trades to Los Angeles stems from the realization, conscious or not, that the end may be near for the Maple Leafs because if one of Matthews, Marner or Nylander leaves as a free agent, a collapse is possible. We can afford to add Auston Matthews as a free agent in 2024, but neither Marner nor Nylander fits the Kings either as a free agent or a trade acquisition, and both run completely counter to the theory on which the Los Angeles roster has been carefully assembled.