Building for the Playoffs

Created by: NazemKadri43

Team: 2020-21 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 7, 2021

Published: Mar. 7, 2021

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

Trades

TOR

Rakell, Rickard

ANA

TOR

Pearson, Tanner ($1,500,000 retained)

VAN

Engvall, Pierre
2021 2nd round pick (TOR)

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
2021
2022
2023

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
20	$81,500,000	$80,062,880	$0	$0	$1,437,120

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Mikheyev, Ilya $1,645,000$1,645,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Matthews, Auston $11,640,250$11,640,250 C UFA - 4	Marner, Mitchell $10,903,000$10,903,000 RW UFA - 5
Thornton, Joe $700,000$700,000 C, LW NMC UFA - 1	Tavares, John $11,000,000$11,000,000 C, LW NMC UFA - 5	Nylander, William $6,962,366$6,962,366 RW UFA - 4
Pearson, Tanner $2,250,000$2,250,000 LW UFA - 1	Hyman, Zach $2,250,000$2,250,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 1	Rakell, Rickard $2,463,139$2,463,139 RW, LW UFA - 2
Simmonds, Wayne $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW, LW NTC UFA - 1	Spezza, Jason $700,000$700,000 C, RW UFA - 1	Boyd, Travis $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	Brodie, TJ $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD/RD NMC UFA - 4	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	Holl, Justin $2,000,000$2,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 3	Campbell, Jack $1,650,000$1,650,000 G UFA - 2
Dermott, Travis $874,125$874,125 LD/RD UFA - 1	Bogosian, Zach $1,000,000$1,000,000 RD NTC UFA - 1

Taxi Squad
Barabanov, Alexander $925,000$925,000 ($0$0$0$0) RW, LW UFA - 1
Vesey, Jimmy $900,000$900,000 ($0$0$0$0) RW, LW UFA - 1
Lehtonen, Mikko $925,000$925,000 ($0$0$0$0) LD UFA - 1
Hutchinson, Michael $725,000$725,000 ($0$0$0$0) G UFA - 2
Woll, Joseph $800,000$800,000 ($0$0$0$0) G UFA - 1
Petan, Nicolas $775,000$775,000 ($0$0$0$0) C, LW, RW UFA - 1
Agostino, Kenny $737,500$737,500 ($0$0$0$0) LW UFA - 1

Top Comments

Mar. 7, 2021 at 9:19 p.m.

Ledge_And_Dairy

Joined: Jun. 2019

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You probably move Thornton to 3C in this scenario

Mar. 7, 2021 at 9:51 p.m.

BCAPP

Joined: May 2015

Posts: 9,427

Likes: 3,722

You can't really put a winger in as centre like that...

Mar. 7, 2021 at 9:57 p.m.

Leafsfaninvancity

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Joined: Feb. 2021

Posts: 234

Likes: 36

I like the Rakell trade, although I don't know if Anaheim does it, Rakell is a good player playing on a bad team; they'll want more. With the departure of Kerfoot, I'd rather the Leafs trade for a C Granlund at Nashville, for say Engvall and a third, and you can keep Thorton and Hyman on the wings.

Mar. 7, 2021 at 11:17 p.m.

OldNYIfan

Ducks and Kings Fan

Joined: Jun. 2018

Posts: 42,095

Likes: 26,676

If you trade for Rakell, here are your expansion-draft options:

(1) protect Rakell, in which case you lose both Liljegren (in the trade) and Holl (to Seattle), not to mention which you have the problem of signing two more forwards in order to give Seattle the two qualified forwards necessitated by the rules, or

(2) don't protect Rakell, which I guarantee you will result in Seattle selecting him, in which case you've spent Kerfoot and Liljegren for about half a season of Rakell.

Now, I have as high an opinion of Rickard Rakell as anyone, but that seems like a high price to pay for his services.

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