With Matthews off the market, Plan B make sense and that is an offer sheet for Mitch Marner. He’s an elite talent, is young and he will want to get paid.
The Toronto Maple Leafs are in a pretty bad salary cap situation. According to capfriendly.com, if the salary cap is set at $79.5 million, the Leafs have $7.6 million left to fill out the 2019-20 roster. So far, they’ve committed $65.4 million to 13 players.
Filling out the roster will be the challenge. Jake Gardiner, Par Lindholm and Ron Hainsey are unrestricted free agents. Mitch Marner, Kasperi Kapanen, Andreas Johnsson, and Igor Ozhiganov are the unrestricted free agents.