Speculation: What do the Toronto Maple Leafs do?

[Amadeus]

They will likely do some remodeling along the edges.

If Marner comes back, they're still coming back with the same mental midget core.

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Trade #23 for #34, #50 and Hawks 2025 3rd

 

[sxvnert]

Nothing. Leafs will roll it back. extend marner + tavares and the corp media shills will back them up 100%.

 

[Albz]

Lmao really ? The draft hasn't even happened or free agency hasn't opened and here is you panicking lol

 

[Commander Clueless]

Miss out on the big RHD free agents, panic overpay Zadorov and Lyubushkin, give up and extend Marner, then pretend running it back was the plan all along.

Oh and sign a goalie. Probably.

 

[Hanover Fist]

Ristolainen for your 1st

 

[sensfan4lifee]

No, it’s annoying to hear how good he is when he is not all that. He is not worth 12M per year extension. 8 years of the same thing, they need to move on. He is soft, gutless, and takes 0 accountability for anything.

Because 90 point wingers grow on trees? lol

there is no use arguing with Leafs fans

they lack the required braincells to have logical discussions

 

[Albz]

Because 90 point wingers grow on trees? lol

there is no use arguing with Leafs fans

they lack the required braincells to have logical discussions

90? He's a 99point winger in 80 games. As a leafs fan, I agree. This fan base is toxic . I completely get why players dnt come here

 

[sensfan4lifee]

90? He's a 99point winger in 80 games. As a leafs fan, I agree. This fan base is toxic . I completely get why players dnt come here

Thats 90 points I'm either going to say 90 point or 100 point winger

saying 99 point winger sounds weird

 

[Richard88]

What I thought of when I saw the thread title. Someone needs to ask the leafs this question

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

RUNITBACK

 

[TheDoldrums]

"the draft and free agency haven't started yet and they haven't done anything"

great thread

 

[PaulD]

Bring in new bottom six forwards and 3rd pair D, one new goalie
1. Support the core
2. Take the blame when core fails in play offs.

 

[Gaberd2608]

Unless a trade is about to happen we don't know about, the plan appears to be to target Roy and Tanev in free agency and hope the number is low enough to bring back the cheaper option between Domi and Bertuzzi. Then, get a cheap tandem goalie and maybe a league min vet forward and see what the kids can do upfront.

Defense would look something like

Rielly - Tanev
McCabe - Roy
Benoit - Liljegren

That's the best top 4 I can remember the Leafs having. Not top of the league but easily in the top 10 discussion. The forwards will look a bit uglier

Knies - Matthews - Domi
McMann - Tavares - Nylander
Robertson/Cowan/whoever from the several NHL ready forward prospects) - Holmberg - Marner
XXX - Dewar - Reaves

It's going to depend on a few prospects taking that next step and at least one of our top F prospects to show they are NHL ready on the third line

You dont have marner on your roster. Assuming is traded we would have something coming back plus probably cap space. If we remove Marner we have the ability to put together a much more balanced lineup. You also dont have jarnkrok or kampf. Removing Marner, Kampf,.and Jarnkrok would.be about $35 million in cap space. We would be in great shape at that point.

 

[eojsmada]

Trade their first for Trouba with no retention

 

[TGWL]

This isn't needed here. This should just be a roster talk thread on their own section.

 

[PoutineSp00nZ]

Sign marner to a fat contract. Reshuffle the chairs around the rest of the lineup since there is no more cap after marner.

Lose in the first round.

 

[BallardEra]

 

[LeafGrief]

Drafting a player tonight is good. We need to keep an eye on the future, trading all of our picks and prospects has gotten us deeper into this mess than we should be, so doubling down is not the play.

Ideally, we trade Marner, make a few splashes in UFA and then have a reevaluation year while JT's deal finishes. In all reality, our coward management sit on their hands, sign Marner until doomsday for huge money, then hope for miracle UFA's and that first round pick to be the unknown bastard grandchild of Guy Lafleur.

 

[HockeyVirus]

You dont have marner on your roster. Assuming is traded we would have something coming back plus probably cap space. If we remove Marner we have the ability to put together a much more balanced lineup. You also dont have jarnkrok or kampf. Removing Marner, Kampf,.and Jarnkrok would.be about $35 million in cap space. We would be in great shape at that point.

Yes I do he is on the third line. I think Kampf is dealt to SJ or something. Jarnkrok probably for a 4th to some team who wants a top 9 winger for cheap. We need his cap hit elsewhere

 

[Bond]

Does Tre have enough cap space to overpay players?

 

[ITM]

At the very least and the most reasonable aim: Endure this season, knowing that $22M in cap space becomes available July 1st 2025.

Make moves for the near future, while not sacrificing the present. And that might include pieces we think we can flip at the deadline.

Unless the 1st round pick yields an early to mid-career player of worth at a position we need at a cap that makes sense or us, we keep the pick and let Clark maximize its value.

We steward what little money we're going to have wisely, understanding, we are NOT fixing our problems this season.

I think we consider this year a rehearsal and see it as Berube's yearlong practice to rid our team of our bad non-playoffs habits (i.e. Fear of the forecheck, fear of the of center of the ice and especially the opposition's net).

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

Obvious play is to move matthews

Quitting on the team in the playoffs should be the final straw…. Even nylander is getting tired of him.

 

[thegazelle]

The guy who's deciding that direction is Brendan Shannahan, who's not going anywhere.

And therein lies the core problem.

 

[colchar]

The 2024 draft is about 6 hours away and the Maple Leafs have not addressed the D or the goaltending, will they be able to do something? Teams around them have improved, the Leafs need to do something.

Free agency hasn't even started yet, take a valium.