The Leafs thank you for JT and 4 top 10 picks

Don't want any player on the isles over 8,000,000 a year. Look at where that leaves our cap? Even with Lehner off the books thats not enough to extend Barzy, Pulock, and Toews.

Next summer Martin ($2.5) and Greiss ($3.333M) come off the books; let's assume the cap goes up $3.5M. That makes $9.333M in cap space. Assume Barzal re-ups at $8,863,333 for a net increase of $8M. That leaves $1.333M left over to re-sign Pulock and Toews plus fill the two open roster slots. Even moving Nick Leddy probably won't get the job done. Bottom line: you guys can't afford Marner.

Don't be an idiot. We are perfectly fine with the cap if we spend 80 plus million. Of course we are moving Leddy and that is 5.5 million right there. Like you mentioned, both Martin and Greiss come off the books, so that is 12 million. Komarov is an almost guaranteed buyout candidate, which is another 2 (hardly hurts us at all). That is 14 (and cap increase probably puts us at 17) before we even dabble at moving anyone else like Hickey, Clutterbuck, Beau, Bailey or eat some money to move Boychuk.

Barzal (9), Pulock (6) and Toews (3) are probably costing us 18, so we are almost there before it even begins. We are fine

“Don’t be an idiot”?!? I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read that. Starting off a reply to an analysis of your obviously muddled math (which becomes even more adrift in the body of your comment) with “Don’t be an idiot” marks you as the moron, Sparky. Almost 50 years old and you want to come off sounding like a snot-nosed ignorant teenager?

Nothing muddled about my math. We are perfectly fine with the cap. The "you guys can't afford him" when we are sitting at 25 million in cap space was the most idiotic thing that started it all. It is just a really stupid comment that deserved any and all retorts. No one knows who else we are going to sign, including you. Or whether we trade Leddy or sign a couple of one year deals that will open up more space (Flip, etc)...absolutely ignorant to make that claim this early in the offseason