What the Toronto Maple Leafs do during the NHL’s free-agency period will depend on what happens before free agency opens up.
The Toronto Maple Leafs might, for instance, pursue goalie Ville Husso, or by then they might have already traded for a goalie.
Whatever they are looking for, you can be sure at least one of the things are low-cost value players who have higher ceilings.
I’m not sure you can ever hope for another Michael Bunting (his 900K contract was backed by a should-have-been rookie of the year award, and the same amount of 5v5 points as Connor McDavid in 300 less minutes) because that is probably a once-in-a-lifetime situation, but they’ll certainly try.