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Originally Posted by Crown Royal
The Leafs wouldn't be able to afford to take on any salary. They have $6 million in space to fill 5 roster spots, per capfriendly, but that is with them having 7 defensemen including Sandin, Liljegren, Rosen and Marincin, as well as 9 forwards including Robertson. They still have Mikheyev as a RFA as well.
But for the sake of argument, let's say they they do make that suggested trade.
That would leave them with a little under $11m in cap space, which includes moving down Marincin and Rosen. Say Petro signs for 8m. That would leave $3m to to sign 3 forwards and leaving them with just a 20 man roster.
Also at that point they just start looking like the Oilers with zero wing depth, actually maybe even worse wing depth if that is possible.
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No doubt about it, they would still need to make more moves, but even a straight salary dump of Nylander would still need to be at least replaced by a forward earning league minimum. At least this would replace him with a serviceable NHL-calibre forward.
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Originally Posted by ComixZone
I don’t think that’s a fair point - O’Reilly had 6 in 7 games? Monahan just put up 8 in 10, if all we’re doing is looking at points.
I hate this whole “Lindholm as centre!”, back when they tried him at centre Lindholm I believe even said he prefers wing - but that if he’s going to centre, then give him a run at centre and don’t just try it for a small bit.
Lindholm is an RW, and a pretty solid one (although I think he is a bit overrated from a defensive perspective by some). Lindy also isn’t our most complete player, that distinction belongs to Tkachuk. Another thing I would say is that Lindholm is not a better centre than Monahan is.
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I agree, I have seen no evidence to suggest that Lindholm would be a 1C on a Cup contender. Also, moving him to C would leave us with a grand total of zero NHL-calibre natural right wingers.