TSN Radio Daly Announced 2016-2017 Cap will Remain Flat - How Does This Impact the Leafs?

[Gabriel426]

I could care less.

Laich's contract was purposely brought on because we had cap space, and it earned us Carrick who is a real player and a 2nd.

We also brought in Greening and Michalek who are both pending UFAs. All 3 are gone at the end of the year.

Robidas will also be free from Robidas Island at the end of the year.

Lupul is really the only thing that will hurt us

Leafs should force Lupul to play in order to reach the 40/70 rule and be expansion bait.

 

[FlareKnight]

Sad thing is there are teams that can take on a Datsyuk contract to help reach the cap floor. So in essence they are about 6 million below the floor, yet they still ice a team better than ours

Is that sad? The Leafs intentionally took on some contracts that will expire soon to get assets. They are using the fact that they can spend to the cap to get parts faster than teams that are working under a budget. Cap situation for us is pretty good. Just have to wait this year for most of those bodies we picked up to move on.

Other teams might be able to take on that Datsyuk contract and have a better current roster than us, but we've already taken on cap dumps and will pass those teams soon enough.