Plan For Next Year
This past season was a bust, but the Leafs did find
out some good things from this. The first is that a
teammust go with speed not power. The second is money can’t buy a team, they must develop their
own players. The last thing is that they have many outstanding rookies in the AHL, here is the plan:
Off-Season: The Leafs will have about 22 million
dollars in cap-space, this is what they do:
Sign Pavel Kubina: 3-year/3.5 million per year
Sign Manny Legace: 2-year/4 million per year
Sign Patrick Elias: 4-year/5 million per year
Sign Matt Lombardi: 3-year/750,000 per year
The Leafs need to buy-out these players:
Tie Domi
Nik Antropov
Ed Belfour
Wade Belak
This will leave the Leafs with 13.5 million dollars to
re-sign who they need to:
Lindros: 1-year/750,000 per-year
Wellwood: 2-year/1 million per-year
Stajan: 3-year/1.2 million per-year
Suglobov: 2-year/700,000 per-year
Kronvall: 3-year/900,000 per-year
White: 2-year/750,000 per-year
Bell: 2-year/750,000 per-year
After this they will have about 7.9 million dollars in
cap space incase they might need to make a trade
to fix something, here is next-year’s team:
Elias__Sundin__Tucker
Kilger__Steen__Lombardi
Wellwood__Stajan__Ponikarovsky
Suglobov__Lindros__Williams
Earl
Kubina__Kaberle
Kronvall__Coliacovo
White__Bell
Harrison
__Aubin__
__Legace__
(split duty)
This team should thrive in the new NHL because of
their balance of speed and and power. They may challenge for the cup!