28 Mar 2020 20:08:27
So here goes guys....right off the bat i know these won't happen just because of the sheer magnitude of these trades and so many moving parts...But again i am the GM here and i really think that this would make our D corp so much stronger although we would be weaker on offense....i did all this under the current cap assuming it stays the same for next year..i may have over paid with draft picks but i always seem to just to add them as sweetners.

this is done to get a lower cap hit as Engvall tailed off after signing contract.1 goal in 19 games and was against the zamboni driver

Leafs Get:
Nylander, Alexander

Hawks Get:
Engvall, Pierre
2022 3rd round pick (TOR)

I feel the Ducks don't want to trade Manson so the picks are sweetners,we get top RD and Heinen who plays all positions for 3rd line....becomes a 3C in 2 years
Leafs Get:
Manson, Josh
Heinen, Danton

Ducks Get:
Johnsson, Andreas
Liljegren, Timothy
2020 2nd round pick (TOR)
2020 4th round pick (VGK)

Leafs Get:We get Dumba to play with Muzzin giving us offense and defense pairing,a 3C in Stall who is off the books after next year Greenway who is big, fast and could be 4th liner and Donato and Fiala to play on first and second lines...get rid of both Nylander and Marner,Fiala had similar numbers to Nylander and Marner is a cap dump to allow for other depth
Donato, Ryan
Dumba, Matt
Fiala, Kevin
Greenway, Jordan [RFA Rights]
Staal, Eric

Wild Get:
Marner, Mitchell
Nylander, William
Kerfoot, Alexander
Dermott, Travis
2021 1st round pick (TOR)
2021 2nd round pick (TOR)

UFA's Signed:Spezza for 1 year @ $700,000,Thornton for 1 year @ $1,000,000,Clifford for 2 Years @ $1,500,000 and Tyler Pitlick 2 years @ $1,500,000 and DeMelo for 3 years @ $3,000,000

RFA's: signed Greenway for 2 years @ $1,000,000

lines look like this....or can be moved around...D looks awesome

Hyman...Matthews...Donato
Fiala...Tavares...Kapanen
Mikheyev...Staal...Heinen
Greenway...Spezza...Pitlick
Clifford...Thornton...Nylander

Rielly...Manson
Muzzin...Dumba
Sandin...DeMelo
Holl

Andersen
Campbell

1.) 29 Mar 2020
29 Mar 2020 10:36:18
The Defense looks good but that Minny trade the leafs are being bent over I agree we have to move one of the three young studs in which i think marner would be the right choice but we shouldn’t throw away all our picks while doing it.

2.) 29 Mar 2020
29 Mar 2020 20:09:39
hey Leafs1994.I think I might have stated the picks were extra just cause I view it from Leafs approaching Wild on it. probly would not need the picks in there. but the rest of the players are included just to free up cap which allows the Ducks deal to work as well. along with the depth signings of Clifford Pitlick and Thornton. Marner is the best player probly going over but his cap hit will dictate that in any trade what is coming back will be not as good. i think Fiala and Nylander have similar stats. Fiala may have found himself and would look good and is cheaper right now. so it comes down to Marner for Dumba. but again get all of the other players making less of a cap hit. and the D looks amazing. I mean DeMelo played 20 minutes a night for Ottawa. and usually against other teams top players…. he is on 3rd pairing and would be a solid guy to have next to young Sandin…. he played with Chabot a lot in Ottawa so hopefully that would make Sundin a better player.

3.) 30 Mar 2020
30 Mar 2020 02:08:16
You really think Donato is good enough for 1RW? 14 goals is pretty good, but that's all he does is pop in the odd goal. Looks like a bit of a gamble. Wild also have Kunin and Erikson Ek. Not that they are so much better than Donato or anything. I'm just mentioning them as possible alternatives. They all produce about the same. I guess it's like a different flavor thing.

4.) 30 Mar 2020
30 Mar 2020 12:40:45
Hey LeafsGM…. I went with Donato cause he is a RW, Ek is a C. figured seeing as Wild are looking for a centre they might not want to trade him. Kunin also has good stats. I mean either of those 2 would also be good additions if they would part with them. I just stuck him in on 1st line but he could be dropped to 3rd. put Heinen beside Mathews and then drop Hyman down to Tavares and move Fiala to Mathews line. just trying to hit the restart button on what top wingers should make. don't mind top 2 centres making 11mil. but I think the max that should be spent on all 4 top wingers is 20mil worth of cap.

5.) 30 Mar 2020
30 Mar 2020 12:42:46
I also based Donato the fact he is making 1.9mil. figured with all the cap we were sending the Wild they would need to send us some back.

6.) 30 Mar 2020
30 Mar 2020 21:10:13
Sweet. You brought up a point that doesn't get talked a lot on here, but is important. Cap distribution. I don't mind $11M for our true number one centre, whether you think that is Matthews or Tavares. But I don't think a 2C is worth $11M. I know we have a 1a/ 1b. But even still, if that's how you want to do it, then they both shouldn't be $11M. It's overkill at that position.

$20M for our top four wingers I can agree with. In fact, my own personal belief, for whatever that is worth, is more like $40M for the top 6, like you suggest, but with more for the wingers and a little less for the centres. My split would be $15 for the centres and $25 for the wingers. Something like that.

Do we really need two superstar centres? Most teams would be ecstatic with Matthews and Kadri. The day Tavares signed was the day the clock started ticking for Kadri. But why did Leafs feel the need to spend an extra $7M a year for Tavares, who doesn't put up a $7M difference in goals/ points than what Kadri does on 2C? What does Tavares average more than Kadri when Kadri was playing 2C? Maybe a half dozen goals and a dozen points. Is that really worth a $7M upgrade?

7.) 31 Mar 2020
30 Mar 2020 22:31:30
Agreed there LeafsGm and I like the conversation on distribution as well. We will all have different numbers in mind but I would like to see the top pairing+Top 6 be somewhere around 55-60 combined. Having 20m a year to work with to fill out the bottom of your lineup seems sufficient to me. Having 3 guys make 33 of that though makes it almost impossible.

8.) 31 Mar 2020
30 Mar 2020 22:40:15
Exactly LeafsGM…. that's a close breakdown to what I get on capfriendly when I put a roster together. I like about 20-22mil on D and 5-6.5mil for a starting goalie and not much more than what campbell is getting right now. Tavares was overkill once Mathews was signed. I dunno if Dubas thought he would actually sign here or if he felt like he had to. I was excited the first couple of days after he signed but when reality set in after realized his contract would be trouble for the cap. and it is. Luckily for now we have Hyman on a good deal. but what happens when he wants 5 or 6? that's when we will all realize Marner is getting 5 or 6 to much. would rather have a guy like Mantha who is making about that. then second line wingers could get like 4 mil each roughly.

9.) 01 Apr 2020
01 Apr 2020 01:18:16
I think Dubas probably thought he was going to get Marner, and possibly Matthews, for cheaper. I also doubt he anticipated the cap staying flat this year, and possibly only a minimum raise next year too now. He probably just lost about $6M-$8M in cap space from what it will a tally be in two years to what he was projecting it would be in two years. Come 2021/ 2022 season I was expecting cap to be about $87.5M +/ - $2M. I don't think it will come near that now.

Probably flat this year and a 1.5% increase the year after that. Why 1.5%? Because the NHLPA didn't want to go above that because it fux with the escrow account. Or something like that. I just know it was the NHLPA that wanted a smaller cap raise last time, and from what I've been reading, they will be wanting a small raise again next time. I'm not an accountant or anything, so I don't know all the details obviously. I just know it has something to do with the escrow.