Cap Space Shuffle

The rich teams win by giving big signing bonuses concept is about to meet a whole new contract reality.

Farewell to David Clarkson, best wishes to Nathan Horton.

The Leafs aren’t up against the cap anymore. It’s a least a foot away now.

Last year, the inefficient cap hits were obvious, but the simple days of cleaning up past mistakes are gone.

Trading? In this economy?

Just like everyone believes.

A tough decision might need to be made to activate Ilya Mikheyev.

One righty in and one out.

Paper deals, practice appearances, none of it is serious roster moves.

It’s tough to hang onto a tweener when the tanking teams are hungry.

The day before the trade deadline, he joins a small crowd being sent back to the AHL.

With Frederik Andersen’s return, Hutchinson is on waivers today.

Today’s practice has some missing players, and some new arrivals.

Injury has interrupted the season of one of the Leafs few defence callups with NHL experience.

Jake Muzzin is going to a place he hasn’t been in a while.

The news is in who isn’t on the list.

I’m going to keep explaining how this works until everyone stops acting like it’s a cap circumvention loophole.

Two great Swedes who go great together are now on the Leafs.

Is there a clever LTIR scheme to replace Morgan Rielly that will let the Leafs have their cake and eat it too?

Now if they want to remember they have Timothy Liljegren, I won’t complain.

Now the LTIR chickens come home to roost and ruin all the fun of fantasy trading.

I don’t think they’re allowed to play two at once to replace Jake Muzzin, though.

There was an implausible emergency, then there wasn’t, now they’re back.

Both are on emergency call ups, so who’s hurt?

In what might be a paper transaction, at least for Marincin, the Leafs are taking advantage of their two off days to shift some bodies around.