how do you sign 2 forwards with -$1M

Hopefully this puts an end to the Severson to the Leafs for the pupu platter deals.

There’s an extra defenceman on the roster and trades are a thing you can do

trades are possible?... wow, what a novel idea.

trading away a player means you need to sign a player to replace the player traded....

bye bye depth, hello first round exit.

it's Toronto and their fans.... the pupu platter one sided deals will never end.

I'm stealing this.

Trade johnsson replace him with mikheyev and have around 2 mil sign the forward you need as an extra chamge Rosen for a forward and you got around 1 mil left carrying one extra forward and one extra defensman

And if i guess the correct numbers in the 6/49 i win the lottery

so, you lose Johnsson's production, for an unamed forward who will come in on the cheap...

that LW side is pretty awful and entirely relying on Robertson and Hyman to produce like top 6 forwards.

my point of losing depth still stands.

Hyman. Matthews Marner
Mikheyev. Tavares. Nylander
barabanov kerfoot Robertson
Engvall. Spezza. Simmonds

Extra: $700,000 player
Idk I’m pretty happy with that

bottom 2 lines are a crap shoot on production... which was the problem last season, and the season before, and so on.

and reliant on the young D to be ready to play at the NHL level consistently.

it's a step laterally rather than forward from seasons past.

Lebron rn would replace liljegren and play with sandin so only one young D. We know what spezza and kerfoot can give us. i liked how engvall looked in the Columbus series with spezza and Clifford and think simmonds is an upgrade on Clifford. And Robertson and barabanov May or may not do well this year if not barabanov goes back to Russia or Robertson gets shifted around to find a better line mate fit for him but it’s worth it to have Brodie.

My point is, by the end of all this.... You lose the offense of Barrie, and get the Defense of Brodie... both are soft in their ends.
so it's a lateral move.

definitely might help Andersen out, the forward core is not really different, better or worse.
Losing Johnsson, replaced with Barabanov, and Clifford with Simmonds kind of negates any positive or negative effect.

it's just shifting bodies and waiting for Sandin or Liljegren to finally be ready for big boy minutes

Our problem wasn’t scoring goals is my point though

While i agree with that, depth scoring is a premium for playoff pushes and should never be written off.

Toronto had 7 goal scorers in the playoffs.

Kerfoot, Spezza, Kapanen, Barrie, Clifford, Marner, Mikheyev Dermott, Holl and Engvall had 0 goals, and a combined 10 points in 5 games.
that's a problem...