Now that the Leafs have made a few more moves, it’s time to check the cap space again.

They traded Andreas Johnsson for unsigned RFA Joey Anderson and signed Travis Boyd to a minimum salary contract.

Maple Leafs Cap Space, October 10

NameCap Hit (or Qualifying Offer)Days in NHL If 2-wayProrated Cap HitProjected Roster
One-Way Contracts
Auston Matthews11,634,00011,634,00011,634,000
John Tavares11,000,00011,000,00011,000,000
Mitch Marner10,893,00010,893,00010,893,000
William Nylander6,932,3666,932,3666,932,366
Alex Kerfoot3,500,0003,500,0003,500,000
Zach Hyman2,250,0002,250,0002,250,000
Wayne Simmonds1,500,0001,500,0001,500,000
Pierre Engvall1,250,0001,250,0001,250,000
Nic Petan775,000775,000
Jason Spezza700,000700,000700,000
Kalle Kossila700,000700,000
Denis Malgin700,000700,000700,000
Travis Boyd700,000700,000700,000
Morgan Rielly5,000,0005,000,0005,000,000
Jake Muzzin5,625,0005,625,0005,625,000
T.J. Brodie5,000,0005,000,0005,000,000
Justin Holl2,000,0002,000,0002,000,000
Martin Marincin700,000700,000
Calle Rosen750,000750,000
Frederik Andersen5,000,0005,000,0005,000,000
Jack Campbell1,650,0001,650,0001,650,000
Two-Way Contracts
Egor Korshkov925,000524,866
Nick Robertson850,00000850,000
Semyon Der-Arguchintsev783,33300
Filip Hallander778,33300
Adam Brooks725,0002597,446
Alexander Brabanov925,00000925,000
Mikhail Abramov810,00000
Rasmus Sandin894,13796461,490894,137
Timothy Liljegren863,33337171,738
Joe Duszak800,00000
Mac Hollowell799,76600
Teemu Kivihalme725,000519,758
Mikko Lehtonen925,00000925,000
Kristians Rubins785,00000
Filip Kral810,00000
Ian Scott805,83300
Joseph Woll800,00000
Qualifying Offers
Joey Anderson874,12562291,375
Ilya Mikheyev874,125186874,125874,125
Travis Dermott - one way874,125874,125874,125
Retained1,200,0001,200,0001,200,000
Total:96,086,47682,274,28981,876,753
Salary Cap81,500,00081,500,000
10% overage8,150,000
Total:89,650,00081,500,000
Cap Space7,375,711-376,753

Anderson goes in at his QO amount, but I’m imagining him not on the NHL roster right away. I put Nick Robertson on to fill the role vacated by Johnsson, and added Boyd, removing Egor Korshkov for now. There’s many other plausible rosters.

This 23-man setup is over the cap by a few hundred thousand, so cutting one player makes this cap compliant. However, we now have three depth players unsigned, all of whom might get bigger amounts eating into the space and reducing the roster a little more.

Joey Anderson might be on the NHL roster because he’s waivers exempt, and can be sent down at will. Having a few waivers exempt players to paper down on off days is how you accumulate cap space for the deadline, and the Leafs have very few of those.

So, like the picture before Johnsson was traded, the shorter a roster you’re willing to run with, the more you can spend on additions, but two of those additions for sure are the contracts for Mikheyev and Dermott.

Didn’t the Leafs just make over $3 million in space though? Sort of. It all depends in how you look at it. But the flexibility to add players has increased, but they won’t be expensive ones, not without removing someone else.

Update: Now that we have to add Zach Bogosian!!! You can just plunk him in and assume for now that Rasmus Sandin is cut to the Marlies, and the net difference is less than 200,000.

Cap Space Shuffle