Today we bid goodbye to CapFriendly, one of the easiest to use websites for a complex topic around. All is not lost, of course. Puckpedia exists, and eventually I will find where things are on that site.

But for our use this summer, this is the current Maple Leafs cap situation as of today. I started with CapFriendly's information and filled in some missing bits from Puckpedia. Any mistakes are mine.

I made my own judgement about who to put in the minors, but I want to emphasize a confusing thing to everyone: this is not the current cap space, and this is not the current NHL roster. There is no NHL roster until opening day.

Until the opening-day, cap-compliant roster is filed, every player of any age who has an NHL contract with the Leafs is on the Leafs roster until they are loaned to another team. For example, if/when Ben Danford is signed to an ELC, he is on the Leafs roster, and he stays there until they loan him back to the OHL. Every player signed to a PTO for training camp is on the roster. And the cap space calculation is not at all a guess at a 23-man final roster for opening day. This kind of projection is useful for imagining opening day. That's it.

The second table shows the most probable destination for players, it's not my statement on who should go where. So, yes, Easton Cowan is listed as going back to junior because that is most likely.

Projected NHL Roster

Player Term Contract POS Acquired Age Cap% 2024-25
Matthews, Auston 4 UFA NMC C Draft 26 15.1 $13,250,000
Nylander, William 8 UFA NMC RW Draft 28 13.1 $11,500,000
Tavares, John 1 UFA NMC C, LW Signed 33 12.5 $11,000,000
Marner, Mitchell 1 UFA NMC RW Draft 27 12.4 $10,903,000
Domi, Max 4 UFA M-NTC C, RW Signed 29 4.3 $3,750,000
Kämpf, David 3 UFA M-NTC C Signed 29 2.7 $2,400,000
Järnkrok, Calle 2 UFA M-NTC RW, C, LW Signed 32 2.4 $2,100,000
Reaves, Ryan 2 UFA 35+ RW Signed 37 1.5 $1,350,000
McMann, Bobby 2 UFA RW, LW Signed 28 1.5 $1,350,000
Knies, Matthew 1 RFA ELC LW, RW Draft 21 1.1 $925,000
Holmberg, Pontus 1 RFA C, LW Draft 25 0.9 $800,000
Dewar, Connor 0 RFA LW, C Trade 25 RFA
Robertson, Nicholas 0 RFA LW, RW Draft 22 RFA
Rielly, Morgan 6 UFA NMC LD Draft 30 8.5 $7,500,000
Tanev, Christopher 4 UFA NMC RD Trade 34 5.1 $4,500,000
Ekman-Larsson, Oliver 4 UFA M-NTC LD Signed 32 3.98 $3,500,000
Liljegren, Timothy 2 RFA RD Draft 25 3.4 $3,000,000
McCabe, Jake 1 UFA RSM-NTC LD/RD Trade 30 2.3 $2,000,000
Hakanpää, Jani 2 UFA UNOFFICIAL RD Signed 32 1.7 $1,500,000
Benoit, Simon 3 UFA LD Signed 25 1.5 $1,350,000
Timmins, Conor 1 RFA RD Trade 25 1.3 $1,100,000
Stolarz, Anthony 2 UFA M-NTC G Signed 30 2.84 $2,500,000
Woll, Joseph 1 RFA G Draft 25 0.9 $766,667
13F - 8D - 2G $87,044,667

Note there are two unsigned forwards, so that total will rise above the cap ceiling and cuts will have to be made somehow.

Projected Loans to Minors and Junior

Player Term Contract POS Status Acquired Age 2024-25
Cowan, Easton 3 RFA ELC LW, C Junior Draft 19 $904,667
Grebyonkin, Nikita 2 10.2(c) ELC RW Minor Draft 21 $875,000
Quillan, Jacob 2 RFA ELC C Minor Signed 22 $875,000
Hirvonen, Roni 1 RFA ELC LW Minor Draft 22 $856,667
Tverberg, Ryan 2 RFA ELC RW, C Minor Draft 22 $851,667
Minten, Fraser 3 RFA ELC C, LW Minor Draft 19 $816,667
Kressler, Braeden 2 RFA ELC C Minor Signed 21 $800,556
Voit, Ty 2 RFA ELC LW Minor Draft 21 $800,556
Paré, Cédric 1 RFA C Minor Signed 25 $775,000
Abruzzese, Nick 1 RFA LW, C Minor Draft 25 $775,000
Steeves, Alex 0 RFA LW, RW Minor Signed 24 RFA
Webber, Cade 1 10.2(c) ELC LD Minor Trade 23 $875,000
Niemelä, Topi 1 RFA ELC RD Minor Draft 22 $856,667
Kokkonen, Mikko 1 RFA ELC LD Minor Draft 23 $846,667
Chadwick, Noah 3 RFA ELC LD Minor Draft 19 $826,111
Villeneuve, William 1 RFA ELC RD Minor Draft 22 $817,778
Mattinen, Nicolas 1 UFA D Minor Signed 26 $775,000
Mermis, Dakota 1 UFA D Minor Signed 30 $775,000
Myers, Philippe 1 UFA RD Minor Signed 27 $775,000
Rifai, Marshall 1 UFA LD Minor Signed 26 $775,000
Matt Murray 1 UFA G Minor Signed 30 $875,000
Akhtiamov, Artur 2 RFA ELC G Minor Draft 22 $851,667
Peksa, Vyacheslav 2 RFA ELC G Minor Draft 21 $851,667
Hildeby, Dennis 1 RFA ELC G Minor Draft 22 $843,333
Maple Leafs Cap Space - July 10 (1)
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Maple Leafs Cap Space - July 10 (1).csv
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