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Hammerwise

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Forum: Armchair-GMFri at 8:12 am
Sujet: I really do wonder what the team could look like next season
I think its completely dependent on this years showing....

You have alot of signings/re-sigjnings on TEAM friendly monies, but with an aging team and declining results, I doubt those players come back for discounted salaries for declining results. In other words if they struggle this year (entirely possible), why would they come back?

(Maybe Malkin does come back for 7.5mi, but why would ZAR come back at 60% of his salary? Why does Kapanen who was on a cheap bridge deal only get 4.25 if he has another yr like last year? Why re-sign Friedman? Why would seattle want zucker, when they didn;t want him for free (expansion) before? Lafferty/Ruhwedel/etc... are AHL/NHL borderline now, why bring them back?)

And in almost every way, you have assembled the same team, so I have to believe you think 21-22 has been a great year, but if it was a successful year, the same logic as above applies: why do these guys sign so cheaply when they can get far more on the market?
Forum: Armchair-GMFri at 5:42 am
Sujet: Hindsight
Full credit to Seattle for taking the best player available from Toronto.

In hindsight, it was a real goofy move to trade assets for a player only to lose him in expansion. Why?

Hes better than Kerfoot, its close, but he is better. He also has a much better contract. Kerfoot for 3.5mil based on his production is overpaid and a solid 3rd line guy, but really no further. Holl has been a great find for Toronto, but lets be honest, hes an overage guy who fits very well where he is, on many teams he is not a top 4 guy.

Ultimately, Seattle picked the best option by far, but Toronto by having McCann would have a better forward corps, but weaker defense.

IMO, what ails Toronto is team depth and thats really down to cap space. The fact that fathertime Spezza is the only thing bringing any respect to the Leafs 7-13th forwards illustrates that. The risks, the injured, the retreads are just stop gap pieces that dont offer much. This team goes as far its top 5 forwards and top 3 dmen.
Forum: Armchair-GM 6 oct à 5 h 10
Sujet: The Only Move That Makes Sense
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>pharrow</b></div><div>no one is claiming Engvall and Brooks off waivers so that solves that.</div></div>

While I agree, engvall even in minors has a cap charge. Same with Mikheyev. Are engvall and mikheyev better than brooks or gabriel or amadio, yes, but the difference between those two in the lineup for a capped team is 2.9mil compared to 1.5mil. But to carry 20 skaters and to have some depth in case of short term injuries, carry 21 skaters (in an olympic condensed season) is ideal, and maybe both engvall and mikheyev need to go.

If the team waives engvall, i doubt he gets picked up, but then he'd have to clear waivers for the new team, so I think theyre better off trying to trade him and a 6th for nothing.
Forum: Armchair-GM 5 oct à 11 h 46
Sujet: 2022-2023 who do you trade
Difficult at best, Nylander is the easiest to trade, but as he makes under 7mil, can you replace him and make the team better with just 7mil?

I dont know if you can trade an Auston Matthews. PERIOD. but at 11.6mil, thats alot of cap space to try and replace him. You could get 3 quality skaters for that cap space, easy.

The leafs have one of the weakest prospect pools in the league, so a replacement for any of the top 4 from within seems unlikely in the near future. Theres a case to be made for some sort of package involving a RFA guy like Matthew Tkachuk for Nylander or Matthews or Marner.

Nylander is interesting....hes the cheapest, still young, but is a lesser entity than the other 3. A package like Travis Koneckny and more (maybe Scott Laughton, or bluechip defensive prospect Cam York or Travis Sanheim, youngish nice number 3 dman) works financially and while nylander is the best player in that idea, maybe those two pieces help more than nylander alone.

I know they couldnt fit under the cap, but how much better would TOR look if they still had Kapanen, AJohnson and Gardiner hadn't petered out. But they dont have that depth due to cap restrictions of 4 big contracts. Instead its kind of bargain shopping (injury risk Kase, old man Thornton)/trading futures for Folignos.

Difficult because Muzzin is a year older, maybe Campbell/Mrazek are just quality backup goalies, reliant on guys like Bunting/Kase/Simmonds/Ritchie/Mikheyev/etc... to possibly be something they just arent, maybe theres just not enough talent in the bottom 6 forwards. Hard to say, but time is running out on the BIG FOUR to actually deliver more than just a playoff appearance.