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Forum: Armchair-GMJan. 13, 2019 at 10:06 p.m.
Thread: Same roster for 2019-20
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>leafsfaninvancity</b></div><div>Leafs can get Hainsey for 1.5 mill. Gardiner is gone, Dermott is moved up to the top 4. Rosen and Sandin should be ready for bottom pairing minutes, as could Liljegren. Wouldn't be surprised to see Brown and Hyman gone for a couple of picks with the emergence of Grundstrom/Moore/Bracco in the AHL who are knocking on the NHL door. Sign Johnsson for 2 mill and <strong>Kapanen for 2.5</strong>. Leafs could get MAtthews for 12.5 and you're just at the cap. Yes the defense will be bad for another year but once Marleau is gone and the cap continues to go up the Leafs have alot of flexibility. They can also trade Johnsson and Kapanen for d help but I wouldn't want to see it happen. They have so much more upside than Hyman/Brown. Wouldn't mind see Hyman, Brown, and a pick to NYI for Pulock.</div></div>

ROTFLMFAO re Kapanen
Forum: Armchair-GMJan. 13, 2019 at 11:42 a.m.
Thread: Same roster for 2019-20
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>SammyT_51</b></div><div>Likely Kapanen would fetch the most currently and we might have to trade him for RHD that is in same age category and good (someone like Philippe Myers) and also Brown can be moved. Marleau would not be moved he has NTC and he is good. Hyman is workhorse. He is important part of Babcocks system. We would need to survive with a bit weaker defence tbh but it would be managable imo. Someone cheap would be signed that would be good but not great.</div></div>

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>palhal</b></div><div>Only a baseball coach that doesn't follow hockey would think that a team can signs it's former players who are now UFAs. Fact is UFAs just by definition are not part any team.</div></div>

I've been following hockey very closely since 1964.

Most teams actually do re-sign their contributing players whose contracts are expiring.

The Leafs can't, but that is not the norm.

Even if the Leas sacrifice Gardiner and Hainsey and Kapanen, they don't get under the cap if they pay $2.5M each for the 2/3 defencemen.

It will take Nylander or Marner and Kadri or Kapanen, plus a downgrade on D.

All because they got greedy and went after Tavares.
Forum: Armchair-GMJan. 13, 2019 at 7:41 a.m.
Thread: Same roster for 2019-20
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>SammyT_51</b></div><div>Nobody would be that stupid to resign Gardiner and Hainsey.. also there would be other moves. No Leaf fan said that team would be the same so..</div></div>

OK, so the team that is already weak defensively will have to sacrifice its #2 and #3 D-men and would still be over the cap by $4M or more, depending on whether they are replaced by league-minimum players, or higher salary ones.

Assuming that the Leafs don't want to play with Rielly plus their AHL defence roster, let's assume one guy at $3M and one guy at $2M are needed to partially replace Gardiner and Hainsey. In that case, the team would be $7M over the cap. Looks like Nylander plus another player will have to go, (assuming they want to keep Marner and Matthews no matter what). Tavares has a NMC and Rielly is indispensable.

That other player does not have to Kadri, but at least Kadri might get you back a decent young cheaper asset. Marleau won't fetch anything, and Leafs would have to GIVE to move him. That might work. Marleau and Hyman for a pick?
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 8, 2018 at 11:08 a.m.