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Created by: JimCarrey

Team: 2017-18 Toronto Maple Leafs

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 3, 2017

Published: Jun. 12, 2017

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Jarnkrok cannot be protected and is likely to be picked in expansion. Fills our 4th line centre/future 3rd line centre. He is defensive but can add 30+ points. In return we give NSH a young exempt winger in Soshnikov who would fit well into their program due to his speed and energy. We add a 2nd round pick becuase i'm sure there will be many team bidding for Jarnkrok.

Florida is in a similar situation at risk of losing a good young defensemen. Leafs get Petrovic, young, big right shot D who puts defense first. Ideal partner for Reilly, to let him do his thing. We give up Valiev and Johnsson who are both exempt and young prospects who at this point are long shots/depth pieces...add a 4th to sweeten the pot.

Due to the fact we would have to protect Petrovic and would loose Carrick, we cut a deal with VGK for Carrick. The idea is we don't trade/shop him before the expansion but in return we get a 3rd round pick. I think thats a little under market value, but therefore don't lose anyone else.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Brown, Connor	4	$2,750,000
Hyman, Zach	3	$2,000,000
Petrovic, Alex	4	$2,000,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Franson, Cody	2	$3,000,000
Hunwick, Matt	1	$1,500,000
Kinkaid, Keith	2	$1,000,000

Trades

TOR

Järnkrok, Calle

NSH

Soshnikov, Nikita
2018 2nd round pick (SJS)

TOR

2017 3rd round pick (VGK)

VGK

Carrick, Connor

TOR

Rights to Alex Petrovic

FLA

Johnsson, Andreas
Valiev, Rinat
2017 4th round pick (PIT)

Buyouts

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

Retained Salary Transactions

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

Buried

Alexey Marchenko: $425,000 ($1,450,000)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2017
2018
2019

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
25	$73,000,000	$68,292,500	$5,370,000	$5,400,000	$4,707,500

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Hyman, Zach $2,000,000$2,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 4	Matthews, Auston $925,000$925,000 ($2,850,000$3M) C UFA - 2	Nylander, William $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) RW UFA - 1
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 $2,750,000$2,750,000 RW, LW UFA - 3
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
Martin, Matt $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 3	Järnkrok, Calle $1,000,000$1,000,000 RW, C, LW UFA - 5	Kapanen, Kasperi $863,333$863,333 RW UFA - 2
Leivo, Josh $612,500$612,500 RW, LW UFA - 1	Fehr, Eric $2,000,000$2,000,000 C, RW UFA - 1	Smith, Ben $650,000$650,000 RW, C UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Gardiner, Jake $4,050,000$4,050,000 LD UFA - 2	Zaitsev, Nikita $4,500,000$4,500,000 RD UFA - 7	Andersen, Frederik $5,000,000$5,000,000 G M-NTC UFA - 4
Rielly, Morgan $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD UFA - 5	Petrovic, Alex $2,000,000$2,000,000 RD UFA - 1
Hunwick, Matt $1,500,000$1,500,000 LD UFA - 3	Franson, Cody $3,000,000$3,000,000 RD UFA - 1	Kinkaid, Keith $1,000,000$1,000,000 G UFA - 2
Marincin, Martin $1,250,000$1,250,000 LD UFA - 1	Rosén, Calle $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) LD UFA - 2

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

Jun. 13, 2017 at 1:32 a.m.

timetosaygoodbye

Joined: Jun. 2016

Posts: 84

Likes: 4

I like the Jarnkrok trade. I think he's a good fit and it's a fair price for both teams.

I'd actually prefer if the Leafs targeted Mark Pysyk from Florida instead of Petrovic. Pysyk is better defensively. He's basically a younger Chris Tanev without the hype attached. And I'd play him on the top-pairing with Gardiner and move Zaitsev down with Rielly.

I like the Franson signing a lot. We can afford to overpay for a third-pairing guy like him for the next two years at least.

I think we could acquire a better backup for that price than Kinkaid. Anders Nilsson from BUF or Chad Johnson from CGY would be a better fit for us, IMO.

This was not a bad Armchair-GM post. Better than most Leafs related ones I've seen recently.

Jun. 13, 2017 at 10:49 a.m.

JimCarrey

Thread Starter

Buds all day

Joined: Jan. 2016

Posts: 475

Likes: 67

Quoting: timetosaygoodbye

I'm not super knowledgable on floridas D so I'll trust you...all I know is they have to move 1 (or 2 or 3) of them

With regards to the backup, my only issue with Johnson or even a guy like Condon is I think they're looking for a starters job, or at least a 1B situation. Seeing as Andersen played 60+ games this year it's obvious whoever the leafs resign, they will be the backup

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