The Toronto Maple Leafs have crossed a couple of items off their to-do list and in the best possible way. John Tavares is back at $4.38M per season and Matthew Knies is back at $7.75M per season. The duo is back at only $213k more than it cost the Leafs last season. With a rising salary cap, that is an absolute win. According to PuckPedia, the Maple Leafs are sitting on $5.8M to spend this offseason. The addition of Mattias Maccelli was a good first use of the space available after the Tavares and Knies signings and bringing in Nicolas Roy in the Mitch Marner swap also addressed the Leafs’ need for another center. By the numbers the Leafs have a full roster and don’t need to add any additional players at any position in particular. If they are upgrading, they will also likely want to send players out. Having $5.8M is a pretty good start for looking at upgrades. The league also allows for a 10 percent overage in the cap up until the start of the season. While going the full 10 percent over seems unlikely, as
