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Created by: PakNation7

Team: 2017-18 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: May 18, 2017

Published: May 18, 2017

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

He was a healthy scratch at times last year. Plus, Philly as a bounty a younger NHL ready D coming into the system.
Expansion Protection List:
JVR Kadri Bozak Komarov Brown Leipsic Rychel
Rielly Gardiner Carrick
Andersen

MacDonald can be bought out just before Matthews, Marner and Kapanen need new deals. That way his buyout cap hit will be lower.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Leipsic, Brendan	1	$650,000
Brown, Connor	5	$3,200,000
Hyman, Zach	1	$1,250,000
Auvitu, Yohann	1	$1,000,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
McElhinney, Curtis	1	$850,000
Boyle, Brian	2	$3,250,000
Mitchell, John	1	$1,000,000

Trades

TOR

Or Rychel if Leivo is protected instead.

VGK

Leivo, Josh

TOR

PHI

Leipsic, Brendan
Soshnikov, Nikita
2018 2nd round pick (TOR)

Buyouts

Tim Gleason: $1,333,333
Jared Cowen: $750,000
Mikhail Grabovski: $0

Retained Salary Transactions

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

Buried

Eric Fehr: $975,000 ($2,000,000)
Alexey Marchenko: $425,000 ($1,450,000)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2018
2019
2020

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$73,000,000	$70,475,000	$5,370,000	$4,550,000	$2,525,000

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Nylander, William $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) RW UFA - 1	Matthews, Auston $925,000$925,000 ($2,850,000$3M) C UFA - 2	Kapanen, Kasperi $863,333$863,333 RW UFA - 2
van Riemsdyk, James $4,250,000$4,250,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 1	Bozak, Tyler $4,200,000$4,200,000 C, RW M-NTC UFA - 1	Marner, Mitchell $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) RW UFA - 2
Komarov, Leo $2,950,000$2,950,000 RW, LW, C UFA - 1	Kadri, Nazem $4,500,000$4,500,000 C UFA - 5	Brown, Connor $3,200,000$3,200,000 RW, LW UFA - 3
Martin, Matt $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 3	Boyle, Brian $3,250,000$3,250,000 LW, C UFA - 2	Hyman, Zach $1,250,000$1,250,000 RW, LW UFA - 4
	Mitchell, John $1,000,000$1,000,000 C UFA

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Rielly, Morgan $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD UFA - 5	Gudas, Radko $2,345,000$2,345,000 RD UFA - 3	Andersen, Frederik $5,000,000$5,000,000 G M-NTC UFA - 4
Gardiner, Jake $4,050,000$4,050,000 LD UFA - 2	Zaitsev, Nikita $4,500,000$4,500,000 RD UFA - 7
Auvitu, Yohann $1,000,000$1,000,000 LD, LW UFA - 1	Carrick, Connor $750,000$750,000 RD UFA - 1	McElhinney, Curtis $850,000$850,000 G UFA - 2
MacDonald, Andrew $5,000,000$5,000,000 RD UFA - 3	Marincin, Martin $1,250,000$1,250,000 LD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Lupul, Joffrey $5,250,000$5,250,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 1
		Horton, Nathan $5,300,000$5,300,000 RW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3

May 18, 2017 at 8:18 a.m.

palhal

LongtimeLeafsufferer

Joined: Jul. 2015

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If you got cap room, might as well keep MacDonald, even if he's buried. It would reduce the number of years of his buy out. Certainly an interesting trade with benefits for both teams.

May 18, 2017 at 8:52 a.m.

PakNation7

Thread Starter

PakNation7

Joined: Jun. 2015

Posts: 1,117

Likes: 21

I just changed it. What you are saying makes total sense, MacDonald can still be a decent number 7 or 8 on any team he is just over paid for that role. The Leafs can simply wait until they need to sign Matthews, Marner and Kapanen then buy him out making the buyout term and cap hit lower.

May 18, 2017 at 9:28 a.m.

MG1986

#LeafsFever

Joined: May 2017

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Why would the Leafs ever take on that McDonald contract without getting something additional in return? Radko Gudas is not a #1 defenceman. He's very much in the same mold as Roman Polak and his game (rather his dirty hits) brings about unnecessary drama to a team (the Leafs) that is apparently all about changing it's culture.

May 18, 2017 at 1:42 p.m.

PELK123

PelkeyF

Joined: Oct. 2016

Posts: 116

Likes: 11

Quoting: MG1986

The team loves Polak. He also has above average possession stats. Not a top defender like you said, but top 4 is very arguable. The MacDonald contract is a definite sticking point though. Team has cap space now, don't waste it on bums.

May 20, 2017 at 1:23 p.m.

muraca17

Muraca17

Joined: May 2017

Posts: 42

Likes: 7

Quoting: palhal

If you got cap room, might as well keep MacDonald, even if he's buried. It would reduce the number of years of his buy out. Certainly an interesting trade with benefits for both teams.

Apparently losing shosh and lepisic would benefit Toronto for a number 6 and 7 dman? Can you explain how that helps Toronto ? Oh that's right your all about throwing away prospects for nothing.

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