Big moves coming for the Toronto Maple Leafs as two veterans may be traded to become cap compliant

The next week will be huge for teams all around the National Hockey League as they look to get salary cap compliant and dwindle their roster down for the regular season opener, but for the Toronto Maple Leafs, that presents several challenges. Currently, the team are $1.069 million over the salary cap with five days to get compliant, and with the team looking to bring in both Steven Lorentz and Max Pacioretty on full-time deals, it means they'll need to start getting creative.

According to reports, that means the team will begin aggressively shopping the veteran duo of Calle Jarnkrok and David Kampf, with those two carrying cap hits of $2.1 and $2.4 million respectively.

While simply trading them would be the obvious move, both players come with no-trade clauses, with both having 10 team no-trade lists heading into the 2024/25 campaign. Beyond those two, Connor Timmins is also noted as a genuine trade candidate at 25-years of age, but with the team looking for depth on the back end following some injury riddled campaigns, giving them some huge decisions to make.

In recent years, the Maple Leafs roster has been obvious well before the regular season, but right now they have several players fighting for positions, and with so many talented names, the decisions they make before the October 7th deadline to become cap compliant could bring with them plenty of shocks. At this point, the team will likely push a trade of Jarnkrok and Kampf, and if they can make that happen and add both Pacioretty and Lorentz, we may be looking at the year this team finally goes deep in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

Source: Hockey Feed
Leafs shove 3 players on trade block to sign 2 more players and become cap compliant