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Forum: Armchair-GM29 janv. 2019 à 23 h 20
Forum: Armchair-GM14 juill. 2018 à 20 h 56
Forum: Armchair-GM14 juill. 2018 à 20 h 49
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>jp_harvey</b></div><div>Usually, signing 3 depth forward (4th liners) in the summer amount to about 3-3.2M$ (one good depth player at 1.5M$, one young player from within at 750K and one 13th forward at 850K so roughly 3.1M$ instead of the 2.1M$ you had. Only 1M more, but considering the chances that all of W.N./M.M./A.M. gets more than what you projected (odds are high), plus the way you rid the Leafs of 2 bad contracts in a way it wouldn't happen makes us understand it'll definitely be hard for them to stick with that young core.</div></div>
Given the Leafs development system, promoting from within for two fourth line spots isn't far out of the question, and would cost at most 925k each. However, if the Leafs go bargain hunting, as they did with Tyler Ennis and sign them to the league minimum, it's fully doable. Even if nobody you offer during the summer wants to sign for league minimum, wait until training camp season and offer PTOs; usually, those guys are just looking for anyway to stay in the league and would accept anything. As mentioned in the trade sections, and in response to the other comments, the return that I listed wasn't necessarily supposed to be realistic, but rather what a team would *potentially* pay for that asset, as a maximum. And as a whole, this was done in response to those saying one of Nylander/Marner must go, Gardiner won't resign, offer sheet Matthews, etc. - some moves are necessary to rid themselves of bad contracts; that's the reality for every team. I just tried to illustrate that the Leafs can keep their core together and still be able to a) afford it and b) compete at the same time.
Forum: Armchair-GM14 juill. 2018 à 20 h 41
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>palhal</b></div><div>Actually the NHL salary cap is pretty straight forward, and hiring a many experts doesn't get around the limitations and rules of the cap.
That Marleau trade isn't happening. Marleau has a total NMC. He isn't been traded to a out of the playoff team just because CapFriendly GMs want cap space. 2019/20 will be his last NHL season and he wants to win a Cup and the possibilities are closer to being a Leafs than Arizona.
If Pysyk is a top pairing Dmen, he isn't getting traded to the Leaf so cheaply or even signed for so little.
For cap reasons logic would say Gardiner can't be resigned. Leafs are hoping two LHD in their system, Borgman and Rosen are NHL ready. If Zaitsev is worth 4.5m, the Leaf should keep him, if he playing to a 4.5m level , no team would trade for without a sweetener or retention.</div></div>
I never said hiring experts would get them around certain limitations, but having guys who know what they're doing and how to effectively use the system is crucial in a salary-capped league. While that's a fair point on regarding Marleau, I do think he could be convinced to waive it, especially if the team he's going to has potential to succeed - hell, maybe he goes back to the Sharks. Pysyk isn't a top pairing defenceman, he's a 3-4 realistically - he's playing on the top pairing to provide support for his partner, like Methot did for Karlsson (not an equivalent, just for the record). Additionally, that deal he's on was signed by the Panthers, not me. Borgman and Rosen are good players, but unless they're late bloomers, I doubt they could ever step into Gardiner's role and be anywhere close in terms of value for him. For Zaitsev, it's not so much the dollar value but rather the term - even if he was worth it, there are better alternatives for cheaper prices, something the Leafs must take advantage of if they want to maintain their forward core. I do agree on the sweetener part if he fails to bounce back however; as that could be truoblesome despite the desperate need for RHD by practically every team.
Forum: Armchair-GM14 juill. 2018 à 20 h 31
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>jp_harvey</b></div><div>Lots and lots of words to describe your moves and make sense of 'em to finally realize that you think you're going to get a 2nd round pick for both Zaitsev and Marleau, next year, by trading 'em without retaining any salary/cap hit...pretty much no team will want Zaitsev and his contract after the last season he had. Maybe you were implying that he'll have a huge bounce back season (if so, it wasn't clear)...and for Marleau, at 40+ years old with a 6.25M$ cap hit while TOR are in trouble cap wise, why would any team gives up that much to help them? Do you think other GM's don't foresee Leafs cap situation? No one will make them that kind of gifts. They'll have to overpay and send a good prospect in both deals and get a 4-5-6th round pick from teams in order for them to accept. Everything was realistic, in your proposition, except that...which is very important cause That's the only thing that would make the Leafs cap trouble go away.</div></div> If you read the section on the Marleau/Zaitsev trades, I mentioned at the end that the return doesn't matter to the Leafs, more so that the contracts get off the books. I am saying, considering that fourth liners can get 2nd round picks, getting one from a guy who scored 27 this year doesn't seem unreasonable. Plus, as I outlined, Marleau skates better than most veteran players, would only need to be paid 1.25 in actually money, and would be ideal for a team wanting to reach the cap floor. Zaitsev would be a harder contract to move because of the term, but it's not impossible - I agree that adding an asset is probably what must be done (see my Horton section), but he holds more value than most think.
Forum: Armchair-GM22 juin 2018 à 13 h 49
Forum: Armchair-GM11 janv. 2017 à 23 h 3