[Trade] Blue Jackets trade Riley Nash to Maple Leafs for conditional 2022 7th-round pick

[AV.]

He's injured.  He's strictly LTIR space to help facilitate bringing in better assets.

 

Benning could never.

[King Heffy]

10 minutes ago, Mustard Tiger said:

And then they play montreal who hits them non-stop bringing out the yearly playoff leafs we all know and love. The end

That and Montreal has quality shutdown defensemen as opposed to the Leafs pylons.  They are built for the playoffs while Toronto is built for golfing.  The only thing No Show Joe will help them with is teaching Matthews how to expose himself.

Edited April 9, 2021 by King Heffy

[NewbieCanuckFan]

2 hours ago, CRAZY_4_NAZZY said:

Been watching some Leaf games and they do overall look very sharp as a team. Only real weakness I potentially see is in goal.

Seems like they’ve been looking for a goalie since they traded away Rask (who has since added a Vezina to his resume).

 

And I sleep well every night.

[Phil_314]

Though they're looking good in the North, think most pundits in the league would still agree that the real contenders are all in the States (Lightning, Panthers, Avalanche, Knights, Canes and anyone would be a fool to discount Trotz's Islanders who've already made likely impact adds in Zajac and Palmieri).  Even if they do add Hall, I still question the extent of his potential impact, but we shall see.  

[Drakrami]

3 hours ago, CRAZY_4_NAZZY said:

I really like what Toronto is doing in terms of their roster constructing.

 

Been watching some Leaf games and they do overall look very sharp as a team. Only real weakness I potentially see is in goal.

They were able to take advantage of COVID and sign/trade a bunch of cast/solid reliable players for cheap. Mikheyev, Simmonds, Engvall, Galchenyuk, Spezza, Thornton, Bogosian. Normally they'd have to dig into their AHL instead of acing these players; but now they are all signed at around 1mil/year. 

[Slegr]

It seems like this way of cap circumvention, by acquiring an injured player to have him on long-term injury is so much more slimy and cheap than our Luongo contract, particularly since it was conceivable that Luongo could potentially play it out. Toronto didn’t break rules, and neither did we at the time. But Toronto keeps doing this, and we keep paying a penalty. This is where I wished Benning had more balls and challenged the NHL on it more.

Edited April 10, 2021 by Slegr

[mll]

2 hours ago, Alain Vigneault said:

He's injured.  He's strictly LTIR space to help facilitate bringing in better assets.

 

Benning could never.

This move is cap neutral for their active roster.  They haven’t created more cap space to use.  It’s only LTIR money that can exceed the salary cap.  He’s out for the rest of the season so they don’t have to worry about finding the cap space to activate him. 

 

They’ve actually probably lost some cap space as it’s not always possible to get full relief.  Wouldn’t expect it to be much. Canucks lost less than 10K by using LTIR but the Blues lost 300K (ie their active roster is 81.2M max).  On CapFriendly they mark the new max cap hit for the active roster after LTIR as ASCL (accruable cap space limit).  They are working on figuring out the moves Toronto did before acquiring Nash.

[VegasCanuck]

Would they like Ferland for a 5th????

 

[oldnews]

3 hours ago, mll said:

This move is cap neutral for their active roster.  They haven’t created more cap space to use.  It’s only LTIR money that can exceed the salary cap.  He’s out for the rest of the season so they don’t have to worry about finding the cap space to activate him. 

 

They’ve actually probably lost some cap space as it’s not always possible to get full relief.  Wouldn’t expect it to be much. Canucks lost less than 10K by using LTIR but the Blues lost 300K (ie their active roster is 81.2M max).  On CapFriendly they mark the new max cap hit for the active roster after LTIR as ASCL (accruable cap space limit).  They are working on figuring out the moves Toronto did before acquiring Nash.

yeah, but everything the Dubas does is just  brilliant - because it's new age, man.  get with the program

 

That said - if Nash actually gets healthy / is able to play for them - the actual point (people get so distracted by perceived cap gymnastics) - then the Leafs will actually have a bottom six center in their lineup - a guy that plays hard minutes, an actual secondary penalty killer.

 

Tavares might, for once, might wind up not having to play the rented mule role for the Leafs down the stretch and in the playoffs.

 

Malhotra may actually be rubbing off on them.  they made an actual playoff type move.

[oldnews]

7 hours ago, Squamfan said:

 

 

cool.

sounds amazing.

 

can you explain the "bigger move" implications? - the  'creating space' - for those of us who can't even play 3-D chess?

[PuckFather]

18 hours ago, Alain Vigneault said:

He's injured.  He's strictly LTIR space to help facilitate bringing in better assets.

 

Benning could never.

Did Benning kick your dog or something? You're praising a GM whose team lost play-ins on their own ice? 

[Hairy Kneel]

Ferland and Sutter for a 2nd and a 3rd.

Retain 50% on Sutter.