Maple Leafs looking to trade two-time Stanley Cup champ

After high-profile acquisitions, the cap-strapped Maple Leafs are still more than $3M over that ceiling.
After signing both Tyler Bertuzzi and Max Domi, the Maple Leafs now find themselves nearly $9M over the salary cap, per CapFriendly. Even with the LTIR allowance for Jake Muzzin, they’re still more than $3M over that ceiling. Accordingly, there is an expectation that they will need to move out goaltender Matt Murray. To that end, in his latest post for NorthStar Bets, Chris Johnston notes that Toronto’s preference at this point is to try to trade Murray over using the second buyout window, a move that would open up $4M in cap space in 2023-24 but add $2M in dead cap charges in 2024-25. Considering they have pricey extensions on the horizon for Auston Matthews and William Nylander, having dead-cap charges on the books won’t help. The Maple Leafs will get a second buyout window if an arbitration-eligible player files for arbitration. That would be RFA Ilya Samsonov, so expect him to be one of many players filing for arbitration by Thursday’s deadline. But that’s Plan B for them. For now, GM Brad Treliving will

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