Toronto Maple Leafs, Mitchell Marner (Photo by Claus Andersen/Getty Images)
The Toronto Maple Leafs do not have a salary cap problem.
The Toronto Maple Leafs do not have a lot of cap space, but they don’t really have a problem.
Now, of course if you have a good team, then over time you will have to make tough decisions.
The Leafs have already had to let players like James van Riemsdyk, Jake Gardiner and Tyler Bozak walk away in free agency. And while this is never fun, it speaks more to why the Leafs don’t have a cap problem than anything else:
The main reason the Leafs cap situation is good today, is that they have (with two notable exceptions in Tavares and Muzzin) refused to give term or money to players approaching 30 year of age.