Goal: Signing all five of the Toronto Maple Leafs RFA’s. Martin Marincin, Josh Leivo, and Connor Carrick got two year deals at an AAV of $1.25M, $750,000, and $612,500, respectively. Frank Corrado and Peter Holland were signed to 1 year deals at $650,000, and $1.3M, respectively.
Goal: Signing two year deals with Marincin, Carrick, and Leivo. This allows the Maple Leafs to put them on the expansion draft eligible list. Why is this good? Because with too many players on expiring contracts after this season (which would make them ineligible for the expansion draft), there is potentially the case where a team would have to risk losing a player that they would rather protect, only in order to have enough players to satisfy the requirements to be put on the expansion draft eligible list (ie.