The Toronto Maple Leafs currently have nearly $8 million dollars in cap space, according to the Capfriendly.com
Now that sounds good, but it really isn’t.
Because Mitch Marner suffered a high ankle sprain and will still be out of the lineup for a couple weeks longer, the Leafs have some temporarily salary cap relief.
However, as has been well documented, here and other places, the Toronto Maple Leafs would, if they had a fully healthy lineup, be over the salary cap.
This would mean that they’d have to demote players and play without an extra man in the pressbox.