29 May 2020 10:24:47
(again don't roast me to hard) so how about this:
trade andersen and johnsson for picks,
tor trades: malgin, lijegren and a 6th for fabbri,
trade holl for picks,
gauthier for either picks or a defence,
leafs sign markstrom and maroon
seattle takes kerfoot

hyman,matthews,marner
nylander,tavares,mikheyev
engvall,fabbri,kapanen
speeza brooks maroon

rielly, muzzin
sandin, dermott
lehtonen,rosen(defenceman from gauthier trdae)

markstrom,campbell

thoughts or suggestions?


1.) 29 May 2020
29 May 2020 10:33:53
i didn't trade many defense cause rosen sandin and lehtonen are young and dermott imo is extremely underrated. then reilly and muzzin are arguable the best on the leafs defence.


2.) 29 May 2020
29 May 2020 12:09:08
Only issue I see is your whole blue line is lefty’s.


3.) 29 May 2020
29 May 2020 13:10:42
The only issue?


4.) 29 May 2020
29 May 2020 13:43:31
Expansion draft isn't until next summer, so you still have Kerfoot on the team unless you trade him for picks

Have you run the numbers on this to make sure it fits under the cap? The best way to do this is, since Leafs are at cap max, all you have to do is balance salary in vs. salary out.

What are you signing all your FA for? Depending on what you are signing your free agents for, it looks like you might be over the cap.


5.) 29 May 2020
29 May 2020 14:14:18
Why expose Kerfoot and lose him for nothing anyway? He's a good player. Surely you can trade him and earn a good return and just expose a lesser player?


6.) 29 May 2020
29 May 2020 17:14:30
I can't really say it's bad because you haven't really specifically named most parts of the trade. What picks are players traded for? What defence does the goat get? What are you signing guys for? Etc.


7.) 29 May 2020
29 May 2020 19:31:51
dunno if the team is that much better as for the numbers he has about 9.5mil to Fabbri, Maroon and Markstrom…. and that is with Kerfoot in the line up as expension is still a year away. also Barabanov is going to be pissed as he came all the way to north America to not make this team. in my review I added him and removed brooks. to get to the 9.5 mil remaining to sign. assuming the guys like dermott and spezza and mikheyev sign for what I gave them.1.5 for soupy,2mil for dermott 700k for spezza.


8.) 31 May 2020
31 May 2020 02:41:09
It's a vague proposal. I understand glossing over the "minor" parts. For example, when you say trade Gauthier for a defenseman, my understanding is that you are saying "dump Gauthier for whatever league minimum defenseman we can get back in return. ". Is that really the best idea though? We already have a lot of very good depth defenseman. I would rather keep Gauthier than trade him for another plug that we don't need in the back end.

And when you say "sign all these guys", I assume you mean give them the bare minimum in terms of salary and term they will accept. Except Markstrom won't be cheap. He'll want a major deal his next contract. So that's a pretty big signing to gloss over.

And when you say "trade Johnsson and Andersen for picks" I take it you are saying "dump both those guys for whatever you can get". Which might not be a whole lot, considering Andersen is UFA, and Johnsson is coming back from an injury plagued season that saw low production. We would be lucky to get a 4th round for either of those guys right now. The market just isn't there. It's going to be a buyers market this off season as teams try to unload contracts to gain cap space. With the cap not going up anymore, it's going to leave a lot of teams in a bad spot, including the Leafs. Trying to dump a UFA goalie and a middle six winger aren't going to pay big. Especially when you consider that guys like Lehner and Markstrom can be signed outright without having to surrender assets for them. So why would someone trade anything for Andersen right now?

Look at what Vegas paid for Lehner. That's probably about the most return you could expect for Andersen right now. And I doubt you would get even that. Vegas paid up because they needed a goalie for the playoffs. Nobody needs a goalie for the off season.