Heading into the NHL’s Trade Deadline, a week from today, the Toronto Maple Leafs will be looking to address some of their weaknesses in order to further solidify their contender status.
The only problem is that unless they are willing to push the Matthews and Marner bonus overages to next season (Entry Level Contracts have a base salary, but potential bonus payments have a cap hit) the Leafs don’t have much, if any, cap space.
Potential trouble shooting of this problem includes finding a taker for Nathan Horton’s $5 + cap hit, moving Nikita Zaitsev ($4.