Leafs 2023-2024 Thread

Leafs add Simon Benoit to their D for size, formerly of the Anaheim Ducks. $775K USD for one season.
 
Leafs add Simon Benoit to their D for size, formerly of the Anaheim Ducks. $775K USD for one season.

Ducks were 32nd in the league defensively and they're only bringing back 1 of their 6 starting defensemen from last year.
They let 5 go and the Leafs have picked up two of them, so they'll have more of the Ducks blue line from last year than the Ducks do.
They were at the "Low Goals For, High Goals Against" end of the spectrum.
But if the Leafs can sub Benoit in for someone more expensive that'll help with their cap situation.


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Leafs add Simon Benoit to their D for size, formerly of the Anaheim Ducks. $775K USD for one season.
I like it. He dished out over 200 hits last season. The Leafs should be a much tougher team to play against in 2023-24.
 
Brad Maxwell went to the Stanley Cup Final with the North Stars in 1981, solid defenseman. He was never going to achieve that with the Larfs, not in a billion years.

I stayed loyal to them through some of the greediest, grossest management imaginable, I can't do it anymore. 56 years without ever getting close to the Stanley Cup Final, the Cubs record for futility beckons. No longer will I travel to Buffalo to watch them play. The Leafs suck worse than The Yetay!

 
Colorado, today, is set to open the season with only 525K cap space.
Nashville, Buffalo, Chicago, and Anaheim are the only teams with space to take on his current 6.9M cap hit.
Detroit and Columbus could make it work depending on who they give up in return.


 
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Interesting development...Slick Willy will start training camp and pre-season at centre. Apparently at the request of Tree, not Keefe.
 
Leafs are over the cap on their 23 man roster by $2,147,283. Add in Nick Robertson on IR and its $2,943,950.

I see no way to get under it without moving Nylander before the season starts.