Rock Solid Defence

Created by: MitchMarner_16

Team: 2020-21 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: Aug. 14, 2020

Published: Aug. 15, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Legend

Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

That Top Four is ROCK SOLID. It’s gonna be a lot harder to penetrate that defence.

NSH Trade:
Nashville gets a ton of speed and skill in Nylander and Johnsson. They get some bottom 4 defence with tremendous upside. Plus they cash in with a couple of picks as well.
Toronto gets the long coveted RHD they’ve been looking for forever. They also get someone to replace Alex Kerfoot and some depth at RW to compensate for the loss of Nylander.
Ellis = Nylander, Dermott
Jarnkrok = Johnsson, 4th
Watson = 3rd

TBL Trade:
I’ve seen this trade proposed many times. Not much new here. It helps Tampa keep some more of their RFAs.

BUF Trade:
Gives buffalo someone behind Eichel, but doesn’t have to be the sabres. Could be anyone looking for low end middle six centre.

LA Trade:
Gives the leafs some injury depth. Really not a whole lot here to look at.

Please let me know your thoughts on this ACGM.

Free Agent Signings

RFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Cernak, Erik		3	$3,500,000
Mikheyev, Ilya		2	$1,333,334

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Spezza, Jason		1	$700,000
Clifford, Kyle		2	$1,000,000

Trades

TOR

NSH

Dermott, Travis [RFA Rights]
Johnsson, Andreas
Nylander, William
2020 4th round pick (TOR)
2022 3rd round pick (TOR)

TOR

Cernak, Erik [RFA Rights]

TBL

Liljegren, Timothy

TOR

2021 2nd round pick (BUF)
2022 3rd round pick (BUF)

BUF

Kerfoot, Alexander

TOR

2021 3rd round pick (TOR)

Additional Details:

Kyle Clifford

LAK

2021 2nd round pick (TOR)

TOR

Moore, Trevor

LAK

Petan, Nicolas
2020 6th round pick (COL)
2021 5th round pick (TOR)

Additional Details:

2021 5th round pick is conditional. *** If Petan plays in at least 30 games for LA, pick transfers ***

Buyouts

Mikhail Grabovski: $0

Retained Salary Transactions

Phil Kessel: $1,200,000 (15%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2020
2021
2022

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$81,500,000	$80,342,418	$0	$0	$1,157,582

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Hyman, Zach $2,250,000$2,250,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 1	Matthews, Auston $11,640,250$11,640,250 C UFA - 4	Marner, Mitchell $10,903,000$10,903,000 RW UFA - 5
Robertson, Nicholas $821,667$821,667 LW, RW RFA - 4	Tavares, John $11,000,000$11,000,000 C, LW NMC UFA - 5	Mikheyev, Ilya $1,333,334$1,333,334 LW, RW UFA - 2
Watson, Austin $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 3	Järnkrok, Calle $1,000,000$1,000,000 RW, C, LW UFA - 2	Kapanen, Kasperi $3,200,000$3,200,000 RW UFA - 2
Clifford, Kyle $1,000,000$1,000,000 LW UFA - 2	Engvall, Pierre $1,250,000$1,250,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
		Spezza, Jason $700,000$700,000 C, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Rielly, Morgan $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 2	Ellis, Ryan $6,250,000$6,250,000 RD UFA - 7	Andersen, Frederik $5,000,000$5,000,000 G M-NTC UFA - 1
Muzzin, Jake $5,625,000$5,625,000 LD NMC UFA - 4	Cernak, Erik $3,500,000$3,500,000 RD UFA - 3	Campbell, Jack $1,650,000$1,650,000 G UFA - 2
Lehtonen, Mikko $925,000$925,000 LD UFA - 1	Holl, Justin $2,000,000$2,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 3

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Sandin, Rasmus $894,167$894,167 LD UFA - 2
Barabanov, Alexander $925,000$925,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Moore, Trevor $775,000$775,000 LW, RW UFA - 1

Top Comments

Aug. 15, 2020 at 8:07 a.m.

eatfreshrefresh

Joined: Oct. 2016

Posts: 4,275

Likes: 1,156

Ngl this might be the first time I’ve looked at a leafs team and been like sure, why not. All trades seem good - not sure Tampa does that just bc cernak has been solid and I hate betting on prospects but obviously something needs to give with their cap, so I could still see it happening. Good stuff

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Aug. 15, 2020 at 8:12 a.m.

palhal

LongtimeLeafsufferer

Joined: Jul. 2015

Posts: 61,241

Likes: 23,586

You know the much heralded and expensive Nashville Dmen allowed just 8 fewer goals than the Leafs last year. So to call an RHD addition "rock solid" is iffy. Watson's effectiveness has declined.
Maybe the trade values are fair (exception the LA trade,) but are the Leafs any better? Left wing extremely weak.

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Aug. 15, 2020 at 8:20 a.m.

kman0101

Joined: Apr. 2016

Posts: 686

Likes: 72

I like Ellis, and watched him back in Windsor. He is a good D but undersized and making 6M... I don't like him for the Leafs.

Nylander is very good and has a lot of upside... i am thinking a higher quality player returns than Ellis... leafs need championship pedigree

Aug. 15, 2020 at 8:48 a.m.

Ledge_And_Dairy

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 39,906

Likes: 20,527

Quoting: palhal

What? Ellis is literally 3rd in GAR this year in the entire league. Idk if you noticed but Rinne went from a .918sv% to .895%. Their goaltending was absolutely horrid for a substantial portion of the year. Their entire top 4 had positive corsi this season too, lead by Ellis woth a 54.2% and a 3.6% rel. Thats literally higher than ever defense on the Leafs but Barrie. The Leafs literally havent had a defenseman as good as Ellis in nearly 20 years.

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Aug. 15, 2020 at 8:51 a.m.

Gordon_Bombay

Joined: Jul. 2019

Posts: 2,057

Likes: 587

Nylander is not going anywhere

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