ahh, the ole 'Tampa Bay' maneuver. Cap shenanigations indeed

when corey perry gives you lemons..

I don't think Stastny for 4 million is the right way to spend 4 mil.

Tavares is already skating.

Leafs also aren't cowards enough to hold a player out the whole season just for cap reasons. The league needs to do something about that.

gave up cap to keep term short. stastny is still pretty productive.

people forget that this season was an anomaly and that kuch only missed half a season. holding a player out from october to may would be way more impactful imo and prob isn't going to be a precedent at all going forward

besides, unlike tampa, the leafs are not really in cap hell. they have a starter locked in a $1.65M as opposed to $9.5M, no atrocious Tyler Johnson-esque contracts etc. leafs don't need to hold out their captain for a whole season to ice an excellent team next year