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"Babcock hopeful Maple Leafs can play well enough to warrant deadline deal"
Babcock hopeful Maple Leafs can play well enough to warrant deadline deal
Toronto fans have made a lot of the untouchability of Marner and Nylander. Out of curiosity I took a look at how Babcock is using these two this season. Turns out that Marner appears a lot further down Babcock's depth chart than is Nylander. Marner is 7th in TOI/GP and EVTOI/GP among Leafs forwards. In PPTOI/GP Marner is 4th among forwards, meaning not on the 1st unit. Nylander is is 4th among Leafs forwards in TOI/GP, and 3rd in EVTOI/GP. That means that Babcock (stated simply, and I'll admit much too simply) is giving Marner what looks like 3rd line minutes while Nylander is getting what looks like 1st line minutes.
It does not seem terribly unreasonable to think that Marner could be had in an OEL deal. The Coyotes have a couple of key assets in Domi and Strome that have not reached the points in their young careers that we all had hoped they would have by now. Marner might be a guy who can help in that regard. Does adding Mitch Marner put some extra air in the tires of Domi and/or Strome? It's an interesting thought.
Making the money work is tough if the Leafs don't include Gardiner, especially since we can't take on extra contracts. Marincin has 225k in unburied hit. Fehr has 975k in unburied hit. Adding Hamilton (full contract can be buried) and Mayo (on a two-way deal) gets us 1.2m closer. Marner's hit is somewhere between 900k and 1.7m depending on performance bonuses (I honestly don't know how this works). I'll just split the difference there and pretend it's 1.3m (until @mouser can set me straight ). That's 2.5m. OEL has a 5.5m cap hit.
So here's the basis:
To TOR
OEL
Hamilton
Mayo
To ARI
Marner
Fehr
Marincin
How do we get more value to Arizona (as this is not a fair trade, value-wise as outlined)? How do we get cap relief to the Leafs? Toronto does have an extra 2nd rounder. I guess we can just chuck that right in there. Do we retain on OEL? How much is that worth in assets?
Babcock hopeful Maple Leafs can play well enough to warrant deadline deal
..."It's our job, as a team, to put as much pressure as we can on Lou to help us," Babcock said, according to TSN's Mark Masters. "... The better you play and the more you look like you got a chance, the more opportunity you have for your GM to help you...
...It's no secret that any such deadline deal would likely be intended to bolster the Maple Leafs' blue line...
Toronto fans have made a lot of the untouchability of Marner and Nylander. Out of curiosity I took a look at how Babcock is using these two this season. Turns out that Marner appears a lot further down Babcock's depth chart than is Nylander. Marner is 7th in TOI/GP and EVTOI/GP among Leafs forwards. In PPTOI/GP Marner is 4th among forwards, meaning not on the 1st unit. Nylander is is 4th among Leafs forwards in TOI/GP, and 3rd in EVTOI/GP. That means that Babcock (stated simply, and I'll admit much too simply) is giving Marner what looks like 3rd line minutes while Nylander is getting what looks like 1st line minutes.
It does not seem terribly unreasonable to think that Marner could be had in an OEL deal. The Coyotes have a couple of key assets in Domi and Strome that have not reached the points in their young careers that we all had hoped they would have by now. Marner might be a guy who can help in that regard. Does adding Mitch Marner put some extra air in the tires of Domi and/or Strome? It's an interesting thought.
Making the money work is tough if the Leafs don't include Gardiner, especially since we can't take on extra contracts. Marincin has 225k in unburied hit. Fehr has 975k in unburied hit. Adding Hamilton (full contract can be buried) and Mayo (on a two-way deal) gets us 1.2m closer. Marner's hit is somewhere between 900k and 1.7m depending on performance bonuses (I honestly don't know how this works). I'll just split the difference there and pretend it's 1.3m (until @mouser can set me straight ). That's 2.5m. OEL has a 5.5m cap hit.
So here's the basis:
To TOR
OEL
Hamilton
Mayo
To ARI
Marner
Fehr
Marincin
How do we get more value to Arizona (as this is not a fair trade, value-wise as outlined)? How do we get cap relief to the Leafs? Toronto does have an extra 2nd rounder. I guess we can just chuck that right in there. Do we retain on OEL? How much is that worth in assets?
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