The Leafs had $5.25 million tied up in Clarkson till 2019-2020, $7 million for Phaneuf tied up until 2019-2020 and $8 million in Kessel tied up until 2021-2022. All gone.
With the 1.2 million retained for Kessel, that's $19.05 million in bad longterm contracts that Leafs were able to get rid in the last year. Kessel and Phaneuf are still good players, but the cap that they've been able to get back will be even more beneficial.
What are the Sens thinking here? They gave up a 2nd round pick and a B-level prospect in Tobias Lindberg. For what? An overpriced defenceman? Getting out of short term bad contracts?
Leaf fans are going to be very smug at the game tonight, and rightly so. The Leafs not only got rid of all their bad contracts, they received a respectable amount of prospects back in the process.
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