I remember when the Leafs did that with Kolzig and a 4th rounder and the league found a BS reason to take it away.

Times have clearly changed.
- Leafs43

They have indeed. The introduction of the Salary Cap initially killed trades. I think it was Brian Burke who suggested teams be able to retain salary which opened things up.

LTIR is being abused. It's original intention was to protect teams from losing good players to injury. You could replace him with a similar salaried player. Now it's being used to make a mockery of the salary cap.

4-0 loafs👍

faker willi with 4 and an apple👍🏿

hutch with the shutout👍

mad pointz👍🏿

what a fcucking joke🤦‍♂️

edit: nice alliteration 👍🏿

They have indeed. The introduction of the Salary Cap initially killed trades. I think it was Brian Burke who suggested teams be able to retain salary which opened things up.

LTIR is being abused. It's original intention was to protect teams from losing good players to injury. You could replace him with a similar salaried player. Now it's being used to make a mockery of the salary cap.
- gergeswillems

I still think the simplest way to prevent cap circumvention is to make the rule that you can only ever dress a team whose aggregate salaries are below the cap limit. (Extend the rule to the playoffs as well)

That's it. It is so simple and straight forward it will never be adopted.

Edit: Too simple I'm sure. Teams could get out of bad contracts just by not playing them. But it would be nice to not need a PHD in mathematics to determine a team's cap space.

I still think the simplest way to prevent cap circumvention is to make the rule that you can only ever dress a team whose aggregate salaries are below the cap limit. (Extend the rule to the playoffs as well)

That's it. It is so simple and straight forward it will never be adopted.
- Leafs43

4-0 loafs👍

faker willi with 4 and an apple👍🏿

hutch with the shutout👍

mad pointz👍🏿

what a fcucking joke🤦‍♂️

edit: nice alliteration 👍🏿
- Skalapy

post of the year nomination

post of the year nomination
- Zezel

lmfaooooooooo 🤣

seriously though, if dubass had built from the net out (defense wins championships), we wouldn’t have to be wetting our beds every day about the goalie situation.

i don’t necessarily mean the goalies that we have but the type of defensemen and forwards that we’ve maintained for the last decade plus

pointz n goals n sick snipes n dirty dangles don’t win championships

role players who skate their hearts out, hit, and put up for their teammates do👍🏿

I still think the simplest way to prevent cap circumvention is to make the rule that you can only ever dress a team whose aggregate salaries are below the cap limit. (Extend the rule to the playoffs as well)

That's it. It is so simple and straight forward it will never be adopted.

Edit: Too simple I'm sure. Teams could get out of bad contracts just by not playing them. But it would be nice to not need a PHD in mathematics to determine a team's cap space.
- Leafs43

It’s not cap circumvention if they’re following the rules. Whatever rules you put in place, teams will hire smart people to get as much advantage as they can.

If you’re really worried about put in a rule that teams can’t hire anyone with an IQ higher than 97. I will come out of retirement and lead the Toronto Maple Team to the Winning Cup.

I think Garnie franked this up...
For us
For the Leafs
For Campbell
For the NHL
For true hockey fans everywhere

They have indeed. The introduction of the Salary Cap initially killed trades. I think it was Brian Burke who suggested teams be able to retain salary which opened things up.

LTIR is being abused. It's original intention was to protect teams from losing good players to injury. You could replace him with a similar salaried player. Now it's being used to make a mockery of the salary cap.
- gergeswillems

I have absolutely no problem with teams making a mockery of the salary cap.

Campbe11

I don't really know if that's true. I keep reading conflicting things about that and I'm too dumb to figure it out on my own.
- gravyface

They have $5.8M, $5M of which is gone if Freddie comes off injured reserve before playoffs. You and me are both too dumb to figure this out on our own and I have an actual slide ruler.

I have absolutely no problem with teams making a mockery of the salary cap.
- Canada Cup

this

can you imagine the dynasty we would have with no cap and the right management?

I was doing a little cleaning today and found a ticket stub to a Leafs game.

February 19, 2011. Against the Sens.

Ottawa won 1-0 in a shootout. Bozak, Grabovski, and Kulemin all missed their shots, and Spezza got the winner. I had to look it up because honestly, I don't remember a lick of that game. I'm assuming it had more to do with the quality of the game than the fact that it was a little over a decade ago.

No trip already - feck

Haha miss Connor Brown, wish they didn't have to trade him.

(frank)ing 🦒

I have absolutely no problem with teams making a mockery of the salary cap.
- Canada Cup

I don't either. You're stupid if you don't. Because other GMs certainly will.

lmfaooooooooo 🤣

seriously though, if dubass had built from the net out (defense wins championships), we wouldn’t have to be wetting our beds every day about the goalie situation.

i don’t necessarily mean the goalies that we have but the type of defensemen and forwards that we’ve maintained for the last decade plus

pointz n goals n sick snipes n dirty dangles don’t win championships

role players who skate their hearts out, hit, and put up for their teammates do👍🏿
- Skalapy

Leafs should've traded for Poon Jenner years ago. Nuff said. 😉

I don't either. You're stupid if you don't. Because other GMs certainly will.
- gergeswillems

I'm fine when a team does it while the "loophole" is there. I personally don't like the optics and the silliness of the blatant disregard.

I always bring up Pronger being on LTIR and working for NHL head offices.

Kucherov in Tampa this year is borderline.

Rielly playing like coach has specifically tasked him with giving up breakaways all night. 🤦🏻‍♂️

They have indeed. The introduction of the Salary Cap initially killed trades. I think it was Brian Burke who suggested teams be able to retain salary which opened things up.

LTIR is being abused. It's original intention was to protect teams from losing good players to injury. You could replace him with a similar salaried player. Now it's being used to make a mockery of the salary cap.
- gergeswillems

Brian burke has had some good ideas or at least been an advocate of some real good changes. Retaining salary is one. I believe he was for no touch icing too.

Rielly playing like coach has specifically tasked him with giving up breakaways all night. 🤦🏻‍♂️
- joel878

Wants Brodie and Campbell to work on their 2 on 1s...

Good sprawl by Dermott.

Rielly playing like coach has specifically tasked him with giving up breakaways all night. 🤦🏻‍♂️
- joel878

Move him to LW

He’s always there anyways 🤷

I want tradezzz

Add a winger:
1st (realistic) choice: Heinen
2nd: DeBrusk
3rd: Sorensen

On D:
Don't think there are any real upgrades left, so pass.

In goal:
Just add a guy, maybe Subban or Forsberg