The Toronto Maple Leafs may have spent to the salary cap, but they also do not have any bad long-term contracts.
General manager Kyle Dubas has successfully looked up all of his young core players, including Andreas Johnsson and Kasperi Kapanen.
The Leafs worst recent contracts were the five remaining years on Nikita Zaitsev’s deal, and the last year and six million owed to Patrick Marleau.
Dubas was able to excise these deals last summer, and use the savings to sign many depth players to single year contracts, a strategy that has worked out nicely for the Leafs this year.