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I don’t know what your expectations are of Virtanen but he’s improved every year and is incredibly versatile. That being said, I would not be disappointed if it cost Virtanen for Severaon.

How is it redundant? They needed a top-6 forward to play. Toffoli is a solid upgrade over Eriksson/Virtanen to play with Horvat. The long term plan has always been to build a young core and insulate then with veterans. Bending has been doing this since 2014 when he first took over. Losing Madden will sting but losing the conditional 1st for Miller also hurt. Difference is Miller has played well and Toffoli moving to a playoff contender and play with chemistry with Pearson is a smart bet that he will well too.

Meh

I only hope Virtanen doesn’t score tonight. I don’t think I can shotgun Merlot.

RFAs like Boeser are likely betting on themselves to produce more as their career goes on and inflation rises. Look at Nathan McKinnon, signs a 7 year deal at a high cap in 2016 and a couple years later it’s highway robbery. Long term deals no longer make sense for young talented players. Austin Matthews just reinforced that.

I think you should look at the details to Werenski’s deal. To qualify him after his contract would set himself up for at least $7 million and he get arbitration rights to go for more. Also, I believe it was rumoured that it was Benning making the comparable to Meier’s cap hit. Also, Brock’s career PPG is .83 compared to Meier’s .56 so I guess you’re right that they aren’t comparable.

Boeser had 40 takeaways last year compared to Bo’s 28

Meh he needs a training camp and training at Leafs camp without a contract would be a gong show. This doesn’t really impact negotiations.

The problem is the Leafs paid their young stars big bucks early and now it’s the trend for all young stars. Bridge deals are much higher than before making the more difficult. That’s why San Jose and Meiers had to get creative with an opt-out because there’s a lot riding on the player to continue his productive pace.

I don’t know it seems like this summer whenever a rumoured contract is put out there, we always sign for less than the report. Myers was apparently looking at $7-8 million per, Ferland at $4-4.5 million. Just saying people haven’t got it right this summer with rumours.

I’d send them Sutter with possible some salary retained for JP

Probably a good Demko comparable for his next contract.

Nevermind, misread.

Nevermind, misread.

Not really. They may be able to spend to $92 million now but Horton and Clarkson still count toward the cap. The extra money they gained was mostly from not having to bury Sparks in the minors with his one-way deal. The leafs are still praying Marner signs for less.

They will also have Dermott and Hyman on LTIR to start the year as well. But when those guys come back they will have to move someone even if they get Marner on the contract they want.

That being said, it’s still not enough if Marner want the same as Matthews. They’ll still at least $1M over.

I can definitely see this being a talking point as the GM meeting next season if they’ve found a way to artificially boost their cap.

Its something to do with Accuring Cap Space. What is the Accruable Cap Space Limit (ACSL)? When a team goes into LTIR, their effective salary cap, or upper limit, is changed. This adjusted upper limit is calculated as a function of the teams cap space and the player’s cap hit. This value is the “accruable cap space limit” (ACSL), and is the first value calculated. Second are the salary and performance bonus relief pools that are later explained below. The accruable cap space limit is the teams new upper limit excluding their LTIR relief pools. If the team operates below the ACSL, they begin to accrue cap space. A team can operate up to the ACSL without using their LTIR relief pools, once they operate above the ACSL, they begin to use their LTIR relief pools. In the majority of cases, a team using LTIR will be using their relief pools. Only in uncommon circumstances does a team operate below their ACSL. The ACSL is only calculated when a team first enters LTIR, if a player is placed on LTIR while another player is already on LTIR, the ACSL is not recalculated. In the event that a team stops using LTIR, their ACSL resets to the default upper limit of the active season, upon reentering LTIR, the ACSL is again recalculated. Two methods can be used to calculate the ACSL: The Basic Equation The basic equation can be used throughout the NHL regular season, and during the off-season: ACSL = Salary cap upper limit - team cap space Example: The 2017-18 upper limit is $75M, a team with a projected cap hit of $74.9M places a player with an AAV of $5M on LTIR: Upper limit = $75M Team cap space = $0.1M ACSL = $75M - $0.1M = $74.9M If the team decides that they do not need to recall a player, and instead reassign a player to the AHL, they would begin to accrue cap space because they are operating below the ACSL. https://www.capfriendly.com/ltir-faq

I wasn’t referring to 1 day over. I was referring to the Leafs preparing for negotiations to go into the season and signing Marner around the same time as when Nylander did last year and having a prorated cap hit for the 2019-2020 season. They still need to move someone if they want Marner over $10.5mill. Personally, I think he’s getting Matthews money and Leafs have to move Nylander/Kapanen/Johnsson to fit him in but we’ll see what they do.

From what I’ve read so far, in the case Marner talks go into the season and he signs like Nylander did. Marner will not only get paid big bucks but it will also get prorated making it higher next season (Nylander’s cap hit was $10mil last season before coming back down). The flexibility is that they won’t have to move another massive contract to make room with the extra LTIR limit). It doesn’t effect their situation this offseason as much as if negotiations go into next season. I think this shows the Marner and the Leafs still are not close.

Well not really because even without the Horton and Clarkson contracts they will still be at the cap ceiling. They still have to sign Marner at under $10.5million and plug a couple no-names into the roster if they want to be under the cap with the LTIR artificial cap. Maybe it’s just because I look at those players as non-existent because they’ll never play another game.

Let’s be honest, the Leafs haven’t really done much to open up more cap space. They just took on a contract they can put on LTIR (which won’t affect the cap) for a contract they would have been forced to bury in the minors (which a percentage would still go against the cap). They saved pennies.

It was hypothetical. Eriksson hasn’t shown he would produce anything over 30 points in a full season and I think that’s even optimistic thinking. He just doesn’t fit into the way the league has been changing to the north-south offensive style.