Quoting: OldNYIfan
Just to correct two of your more erroneous statements, no one is suggesting that New Jersey would dream of trading 3rd overall, Arizona gets it via the lottery, and literally dozens of constructions by more informed Toronto guys like
@SammyT51 ,
@Jamiepo and
@palhal demonstrate that with Ceci and Barrie departing, Toronto won't have cap problems next year. And unless you're living with Taylor Hall, you don't know where he wants to go.
I'm not sure how you get to that conclusion.
Look go to the team page and look at their cap numbers.
at 84 they got 7 mil in space.
But there is a lot of talk of a flat cap. The cap staying at 81.5 and there being a buyout.
How true is that or not no one knows. But they did lose revenue this year so I think expecting 84 is pushing it.
You knock that 84 down, you look at the number of holes to fill, you got 9 forwards signed. Superman needs a new contract which will be a bump. So you are at 10 and 3 more forwards.
Then you look at defense and you got 3 holes to fill.
I mean, 7 mil cap space with all those holes doesn't equal a lot. Especially if you are wanting any real help on the blue line. Even if you fill those other 3 forwards at close to league min that's 1.5 million. Superman probably gets over 1 million so thats 2.5 mil. That's down to 4.5 million for 3 defense men. You don't think that's cap hell? Even bad defense men are making 2 million a year.
TOR needs to trade a guy out to make cap space. I'm about positive on that, if they want to improve their defense. Otherwise, they going with those young guys again and same results next year.