The Toronto Maple Leafs have signed a few PTOs and at last made official a signing however are they accomplished making strikes?
NHL Community: David Pagnotta on NHL Tonight when requested if the Toronto Maple Leafs want to make any extra strikes.
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Jamison Coyle: “One group all the time below the microscope, the Toronto Maple Leafs. Are they trying to make any strikes as we get nearer to the beginning of the season?”
Pagnotta: “Yeah, they’re J-MO. They’ve been taking a look at, even after they introduced in Max Pacioretty final week on a PTO. They have already got Steven Lorenz. They signed Jani Hakanpaa formally to a deal.
They don’t have a ton of cap area. They don’t have a lot in any respect, in order that they’re taking a look at alternative ways to create further cap area, but in addition liberate a bit of little bit of roster area on this group as nicely.
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Now, though Robertson locked into that one 12 months contract, I’m instructed he’s nonetheless very a lot in play. They usually’re nonetheless Brad Treliving, their GM, is having conversations with different groups on the market about that risk of transferring him.
Conor Timmons, his title is on the market as nicely. He’s received a $1.1 million cap it. So there are methods to alleviate a bit of little bit of cap stress. Now, in the event that they don’t make a transfer with Timmons, for instance, at that $1.1 (million) they’ll nonetheless ship him down in the event that they needed to, and make the most of that full quantity on his AAV to provide them a bit of little bit of flexibility for Pacioretty or Lorenz.
It feels like Pacioretty is just about a foregone conclusion that he might be a Maple Leaf this season. Assume the PTO is extra so simply ensuring that he’s as much as snub well being sensible.
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However the Leafs have a bit of little bit of wiggle room, or attempt to, excuse me, create a bit of little bit of wiggle room with a number of the strikes they’re attempting to make right here. And that’s as much as Brad Treliving. He’s received just a few weeks to determine it out.
