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Originally Posted by GioforPM
The issues are going to be Marner's contract (he will ask for $11.5 at least) and the fact they will have top go and find goalies and Dmen if they want to compete because their homegrown ones suck/don't even exist. They've got Morgan Reilly signed long term and no goalies. They will need relatively inexpensive guys on D and in goal and they have no trade capital to get them (and UFAs will be overpriced).
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Looks that way right now, but evaluating prospects is not an exact science. The Flames have 2 players on there team, Zary was a around top 50 prospect and Pospisil was no where near any top prospect list. Both are player well. Leafs can find these types of players too and if they do they will improve their cap situation to target a dman.
Who was picking Vegas last year at the start of the year with their goalies? Then Logan Thompson goes down, who was picking them at that point? They started the playoffs with Brossoit, he did not play well. Who was picking them when they switched to Adin Hill? lol nobody was picking them and predicting them to get that kind of goaltending from Adin Hill.
Right now, the Leafs have holes that need to be fixed. This contract is not an anchor and is not blocking them from having a chance with some good moves to fill those holes. Marner, Matthews and Nylander are not a bad trio to build around at $35 to $36 mil per, especially when the cap will be $96+ before these guys turn 30.