Screw the idea of a five year rebuild. Screw patience. I have four syllables for you: Twen-ty Five Mill-ion.
That’s the amount of cap-space the Leafs will have going into next season. A team that already has a first-line worthy player on every line, two #1 D-men, a FRANCHISE PLAYER and an all-star goalie, will have $25 million in available cap-space.
Try to Relax
You can’t. It’s almost too awesome to be real. But it’s very real. Brendan Shanahan is a genius. Not only do the Leafs have a veritable all-star team’s worth of players on entry-level contracts, they have a set of players in their absolute primes: Kadri, Komarov, Andersen, JVR, Bozak, Gardiner.