If Kerfoot (expansion/trade), Holl (expansion/trade) and Engvall (trade) were off the roster, the leafs could technically fit in the cap hit.
You essentially just sacrifice your ability to add a key forward up front, and need to rely on Galchenyuk coming back to play with Tavares and Nylander which looked good, as well as Foligno being willing to come back on the cheap to play with Matthews and Marner, which again, looked fine in the small sample we saw it before Foligno got hurt, and then placed with Tavares and Nylander.
You still have room to add a couple third liners to revamp the bottom 6, at 2-2.25M each. (Names are just placeholders).
Overall I do think it's highly unlikely. A roster could look something like this however;
I've been wondering the same thing. I can't find anything about him online since April.
Since free agency sucks ass for goalies this year, either trade for one or if you don't want to do that, sign someone you think might be able to break through. At worst, you can go with a tandem and see if there's something better next year.
Ordinarily I would take Chara in a second, even at 40+, but what you have to worry about there is the combination of Chara basically having to use interference and hooking to get around anymore 'cause he's too slow combined with the NHL treating the Leafs like they're the Broad Street Builles no matter what their roster actually looks like...
