All 16 Toronto Maple Leafs Pending Free Agent Predictions
By Mike Jack
The Toronto Maple Leafs currently hold the rights to 16 pending free agents. Many were NHL regulars last season and some were looking for a fulltime shot at the NHL level.
Toronto Maple Leafs like Jack Campbell, Rasmus Sandin, Timothy Liljegren and Ilya Mikheyev could all potentially become available when free agency opens on July 13th.
There are a lot of questions around some of these potential free agents: Will they stay or will they go? Will the RFA’s get an offer sheet? Will they go to arbitration? Will they even receive a qualifying offer?
The Leafs, have long operated under the philosophy that you should only pay out big money to star players, while avoiding large cap hits to mid-range players.
This means that is especially interesting to see what they will do with players such as Mikheyev and Engvall, who have been great value on their cheap deals, but who may have priced themselves out of Toronto.
However, that isn’t guaranteed to be the case, because the Leafs have made exceptions to this rule for players who are have some upside, and I think both aforementioned players do.
Here are some predictions on who will stay and who will go.
Let’s see how many I can get right: