Mirtle : Comment les Leafs devraient-ils dépenser 20 millions de dollars en plafond cet été ?
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bornagain19
@Maple Leafs de Toronto
Mirtle : Comment les Leafs devraient-ils dépenser 20 millions de dollars en plafond cet été ?
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bornagain19
46 Comments
Paywall.
Defense
Defense and goaltending. They have enough talent up front.
Just give it to Marner
A goalie reliable enough to 1A/1B with Woll.
A top 4 defenceman.
A top 9 forward.
Lost me at « go relatively economical in goal » and then suggesting Brossoit for 3 mil.
Outstanding way to ensure we lose in the 1st round again
Midfield
Pay mitch marner 12 million of course !!!
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We need players in every part of the lineup to be honest. Most important is just not giving out bad contracts when we’re in the last year of Tavares’ deal. If we step from that to having other anchor contracts we’re done for. Get value where you can, the truth is we aren’t going to be able to fill every hole with absolutely ideal personnel with the restrictions we have.
Max Domi
Jalen Chatfield
Figure the rest out
“A top 4” we need several top 4 d. No 1 person solves this nightmare. So over the bandaid fixed just fix the defence
Buy a fuckin goalie.
What you’re leaving out is that they need to fill 11 roster spots…3 guys isn’t going to cut it.
Let’s not get an elite goalie or defenseman. 🙃
Good defense and a goalie who can hold it down, also need some forwards who perform when the lights are the brightest
Am I the only one who thinks we need scoring help? Come the playoffs, it’s goals we can’t score. Come crunch time, the D is fine.
Well, they have 7 spots to fill right now. They have 4 RFAs in Dewar, Robertson, Gregor and Lilly.
I assume they’ll resign Dewar and Robertson. Let’s put that at 1.5mil each (might be high). I’m not sure Gregor is back. He might be if they need a cheap body.
Let’s assume they take Lilly back as well. Would that be 2-2.5mil?
That’s 14.5mil for 4 players now. We need a goalie, 2 nhl defenseman and a forward.
Now let’s say Domi is back at 4.5mil.
That’s 10mil left for a goalie and 2 defense.
Are we getting Tanev or Zadorov or Montour? That’s a big chunk of the remaining. Say 6mil.
So now we need a goalie for 3mil and a league minimum defenseman. Can we get Broissoit or Talbot for 3mil?
Anyways, the money doesn’t stretch that far. I think they’ll need to be tough on the RFAs to free up a bit of cap room to go shopping. And this assumes we don’t make any trades.
Let’s just assume Marner is staying because until a deal happens, that is exactly what we are facing.
Matthews-Marner-Nylander-Tavares-Knies-??? – that’s your top 6
Jarnkrok-Kampf-Robertson-McMann-Holmberg-Reaves -that’s your bottom 6
Dewar-Cowan-Minten – depth/fighting for a roster spot guys
Rielly-McCabe – top 4 defensemen
Benoit-Timmins-Webber – bottom pairing defensemen
Liljegren – RFA…sounds like he might not be back
Woll – tandem starter
The Leafs NEED two top 4 defensemen more than they need a top 6 winger because you can theoretically put McMann in the top 6 and then have Dewar as the guy coming in/out for Reaves and Cowan/Minten may make the team out of camp.
The Leafs NEED a reliable tandem goalie at least to pair with Woll if not an interim starter if you don’t trust Woll to stay healthy enough to play 40+ games.
That 20 million should be prioritized to signing a goalie and two defenseman for me. Depending on what is left over after that I’m fine with them bringing back a forward. I’m really not against Domi coming back. I’m not against Bertuzzi coming back but I don’t think that 5+ million for Bertuzzi gives enough value given the more pressing holes on the back end. You still want grit but we need guys who can get the puck moving up the ice. As much as playoffs need dirty goals, the reality is that teams are scoring goals off transition offense far more right now. The Leafs are too slow moving the puck from their own zone to the attack. It lets defenses get set up too easily and they can just slow the Leafs up at the blueline and our ineffective forecheck leads to meaningless perimeter cycling.
The bigges tissue with making big acquisitions is that we are going to have to sell players on the potential of winning because there are teams with lots of cap space like Utah who will probably spend way more than Arizona would have.
Give it to me I could use it
Everyone and their daddy is looking for a top 4 defensemen. Gonna need to over pay for one of those. No goalies on the market so we gonna need to trade for one of those. Which seems like 3 teams have goalie available. Going to be tough.
This may be slightly controversial but all on defence. I want every penny devoted to defence for once. We aren’t getting a bonafide #1 goalie short of a wild Marner trade. We aren’t going to have a better goalie then Bob, Vasi, Igor, Swayman so we have to have a defence that can protect or goaltending. Woll if healthy is steady Eddy and can get it done. We of course need to get some other goalie but I would mainly spend on defence. Again short of a Marner trade we aren’t getting a better then Rielly #1 guy so we need as many top 4 d-men as we can get. I want every D line to feel like a good 2 pairing. Note I am basing this on the current info that Marner isn’t going to leave. If you trade Marner they have to go after a #1 D or goalie as best they can. Short of that the above stated is how I think we spend. Then it’s on the coaching staff to fix our special teams in the playoffs. The Leafs lose in the playoff largely because every series they lose the special teams battle on both the PP and PK.
Leafs spend $20M on two players because that’s how we roll.
Adrian Newey
How many players are in this 20 million dollar bubble?
DEFENSE
GOALIE
For the first time in my adult life I couldn’t give a single fuck how they spend that money. All comes down to luck in the end anyways.
They probably shouldnt.
Fill out the roster as needed and leave some room for trades during the year. This upcoming year is a critical one for the Leafs and it would be unwise to handcuff the org any more than they already are.
We need a reliable goalie to be a 1B for Woll, so look to spend $2.5M-$4M on that. We then need probably 2 defenders and 3 forwards to round out the lineup. Should be able to do it all for around $15M leaving $5M for trades
Buy a 20 million dollar car.
Leafs have 10 forwards signed for next year. Dewar and Robertson should not make more than McMann. Sign those RFAs to $1.35 or less AAV. Cowan and Miten have 1 spot to compete for, or you sign a cheap forward to be the 13th guy.
Leafs have 5 D signed for next year. Timmins and Webber are likely Marlie bound. Perfectly OK with Mo, McCabe, and Benoit as the left side. Putting a reasonable cap hit AAV on some UFAs, Tanev ($6 million), Troy Stretcher ($1.35 million), Lyubushkin ($2 million), Erik Gustafsson ($1.35 million), and Josh Brown ($1.35 million) are all available and can likely be had for just over $12 million combined. You really only need 3 of them, as Timmins can work as a 7th D. You can also bring back Lilly if the trade market isn’t great/you miss out on UFAs.
We need a goalie…and can get one for $2 million. The goal is somebody who can give you a save percentage above .900. There are 8 goalies who did so with over 20 games played. None of them had a cap hit over $2 million last year. Given the possibility of signing Murray or Jones to a poison pill contract with a signing bonus near the end of camp, Not a great spot, but not terrible.
That’s $16.7 in added cap (Dewar and Robertson, $12 million on D, $2 million on a goalie) before dumping $1.975 AAV on guys to the minors. Leaving roughly $5.275 if you want to bring back Domi. And the Leafs shouldn’t use all of that on Domi.
Just…like…a whole WHACK of burritos. Every flavour of the rainbow. Bring ‘em in on trucks.
Re-sign Marner on a similar contract for 7 years, get a Bonafide D man and a starter too
Goaltending and defence. Build from the back out
Leafs should give me the 20M. Thats my person opinion tho
Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if they resigned marner leaving them again trying to fill up the team with limited budget
I love the experts doing their projections because they HAVE to be just vague enough that they don’t mess with any of their connections. This article has nothing in it, don’t worry if you don’t have the athletic, just go to capfriendly (which we get to keep until July 4th or whatever) and look at the current picture.
I think the Leafs should be very conservative with this cap space and I don’t think they should trade Marner, which means I have them running it back basically. I’m very nervous about targeting Stolarz or Broissoit on a deal with term and I’m very nervous about giving term and money to slow moving dmen like Roy and Zadorov and plugging up the cap long term.
Assuming Stolarz isn’t taking a 1 year deal, I think they should target 2 guys from that next tier of goalies and run 3 goalies. 2 of Talbot, Lankinen, Nedeljkovic, Driedger, Wedgewood, or Martin Jones. And then I think they should target 3 of that next tier of dmen after the top guys, possibly plus Tanev. So like 3 of Demelo, Dillon, Cole, Lyubushkin, Myers, Martinez, Grzelcyk, Hakanpaa, could probably include Liljegren there. I’m also partial to the idea of Kevin Shattenkirk to run the PP.
Domi, beetuzzi and 1 or 2 d men
Goalie and D is the only answer.
Mariner extension for sure !!! 🙃🙂↔️🫨
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Start with Montour (it will cost a ton) and then either Skjei or Dillon. Whatever you have left sign a tandem guy for Woll. Hopefully leave a little room for in season adds.
I’m really surprised at the lengths that Leafs journalists will go to not acknowledge that the Leafs need to keep a minimum of $15 million open for the summer of 2026 when McDavid is a UFA. Everything should be geared around that possibility. Whatever they do this off-season and next should be done with a view to signing McDavid in summer of 2026. That is a once in a generation opportunity to have two of the top 5 players in the world on your roster.
Superstar, all time legend, future HOF, tough as nails 6’8 foot defence man.
1a defenseman 1a goalie. Then play our value cap grinder we are famous for around it and go from there.
Might as well give it all to marner and Tavares and run it back
Sign Sollarz for a million. Sign jones for a 3rd option in case of injury. Trade for or sign a legit top pairing D. Sign a middle pairing D. Pickup a 2C. Fill with Robertson, Minten, Cowan, whoever else we have or can sign cheaply and fit. Then bolster at the deadline if we have to.
Extend Marner. Sign a bunch of spezza deals to fill roster