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Originally Posted by Roose13
Are they under contract for the 2013-14 season? If so then you should be okay, especially with the cap supposedly going up again for 2014-15
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They are not under contract for this upcoming season. I would not be worried about it otherwise. If they don't not come to terms here with some kind of bridge deal (as they can't afford anything otherwise) I expect Franson will be shipped out. That will be a fairly large blow to the back end.
The problem is that Toronto has a boat load of NHL (not great but still NHL) talent on their back end. So it's tough to see how it will all unfold.
Phenauf - Gunnaron
Gardiner - Liles
Fraser- Ranger
Brennan
Franson( RFA)
Liles seems to have fallen out of favour with Randy.
The issue is that without Franson on that first pairing PP unit they lose a boat load of scoring.
Of the two, Franson will be traded before Kadri. Kadri is their shoe in second liner to start the year.
What was originally a whole lot of cap space this off season has turned into a whole lot of cap frustration.
Without Kadri they are a hurting unit down the middle as well.
JVR - Bozak - Kessel
Lulup - Kadri(RFA) - Clarkson
Mcclement - Bolland - Kulemin
Orr - Colborne - Mclaren
Take Kadri out of there and it goes from a very skilled top 6 to a very weak top 6.
At this point, seeing as no one wants Liles, Leafs included, they are stuck in a cap limbo. Some arguments were to spent up to the %10 overage they can during the off season, not carry 23 players on the roster and hopefully someone needs a D-man (Liles) early enough on in the season. But it's a bit of a quandary for Nonis who has bought himself into a corner here.