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Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 30, 2021 at 9:50 a.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMAug. 2, 2019 at 4:46 p.m.
Thread: trade col
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>pharrow</b></div><div>you clearly didn't read. Cole had surgery on both hips, not expected to start the season, he's unknown if he'll even play this year or if he does what he'll look like..
EJ had shoulder surgery, not expected to start the season.
They will have issues on their 3rd pairing. So please come back to reality.</div></div>

All reports are that Cole will be back by December, so you are overstating his situation.
Not sure about your information on EJ. Latest reports are he will be ready for opening day.
Girard-EJ and Zadorov-Makar are set for the top 2 lines.
They can easily make a serviceable 3rd line from Barberio, Graves, Connauton, Timmins, Byram, Rosen, and Meloche until Cole comes back.
Byram will most likely suit up for the first 9 games. If he shows he's ready he will stay, otherwise he'll go back to juniors.
Timmins will most likely start in the AHL until he's in game shape and could then be called up.
The last thing they need is an aging LD (they have LD galore. It's RD they are a little short on) with 4 more years on his contract.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 26, 2019 at 8:58 a.m.
Thread: Marner and Gardiner
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Buds4Life</b></div><div>Leafs can exceed cap limit by 1.5M because of LTIR cap relief after Clarkson deal and Marner signing in season.
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I don't know where you got this idea, but you are wrong. The cap formula on here is a best case scenario assuming they get the max relief possible, so you cannot exceed the cap number by 1.5 million. And Marner signing in season would make it even more complicated and would not be beneficial capwise.
The cap figure is calculated on a daily basis. The later he signs, the fewer days his salary is spread across resulting in a larger cap hit. If he signed 30 days into the season with a 10.5 million AAV , his cap hit for the year would be about 12.5 million. And since they will not be accruing cap space during that time he isn't signed, they won't be able to cover that unless they trade some other higher salary players to make room.