No need to buyout Brodie...

Why are so many Leaf fans trying to make this team so much worse at Defence... Brodie is 100x better then Dumba at defense. Theres a reason Dumba was never traded and basically let walk. No team valued him as much as the hype train of his name valued him.

Dumba needs to be heavily insulated I would never play Dumba on a top pairing against teams best players. thats asking for another first round exit. We already signed a defensive liability in Klingberg. having a second one on the right side is suicide for this team. They need a big strong Stay at home defenseman who can block shots , play PK and play amazing defence. That is NOT dumba. He puts up a couple points and throws a hit here and there taking himself out of the play more often then not. Theres also a reason hes not signed already ....Every team knows it. Theres a reason hes going to have to take a 1 year deal in a place like Arizona.
But i understand.. A fan who may not follow the NHL as closesly as others sees the name Dumba and says OMG its dumba lets sign him. its because his name carrys some weight in fans minds. Hes not very good. for him to succeed he would have to play on the second pairing. but the leafs need a top pair D to play wih Morgan Reilly, and Reilly Dumba would be disasterous as a pairing.

Can confirm:

Brodie will NOT be bought out. There’s been no talk about the idea within the organization.

You’ve just created $4.5M of dead cap space for next season when Matthews and Nylander’s extensions kick in. That’s a fast way to get fired.

They gotta trade someone
They are over the cap

Trade him for value, not buy him out

Moving a defenceman when they’re considerably weaker at the position isn’t the smart way to go. They’re only about $2M over the cap by the time LTIR accounts for Muzzin and Murray. They can move $2M fairly easy

Theyre actually not over the cap as much as people portray them to be. the cap friendly number has the team rolling with the max number of contracts. I believe the Samsonov contract was waited for so they knew just what to do.
So If the leafs paid the piper and traded Murray... add Robertson or whatever sweetener is needed.
Then Moved Timmins , and send Holmberg down. That puts them in the green by 627k. are they going to want to run on 20 players ... no. so youre right theres going to have to be a move unless someone is injured we dont know about yet. But all that would take is Toronto moving on from Jarnkrok and giving a guy like Steeves or Holmberg a shot.

Theres no need to buyout Brodie when theres a handful of teams that would pay you to take him.

Moving Jarnkrok would hurt their secondary scoring tho