3 Value UFA Forwards Toronto Maple Leafs Should Sign

The Toronto Maple Leafs will need to continue to find value in the bottom-six in order to be successful next season.

Ever since Kyle Dubas took over as GM of the Toronto Maple Leafs, value contracts have been very important to his philosophy. High-end skill can be rewarded financially, but the bottom-tier of the roster is where you find the value.

For example, whether it was Michael Bunting, Ilya Mikheyev, Ondrej Kase, Jason Spezza or David Kampf last season, all four of those players were paid far less than what they were worth.

It’s a hard philosophy to live by, because you have to get extremely lucky and need to find diamonds in the rough. However, if you trust your professional scouting team, you can get rewarded from this approach and it can balance out your roster in a salary cap world.

Signing the core-four to half of the salary cap is always going to create a cap-issue, however if you can continue to find players who make a minimum salary who should be $3-5M players on the open-market, it can really balance out your roster and make the team well-rounded.

As it stands out right now, Toronto has a few players that have probably outplayed their contract, so instead of re-signing them to a dollar-amount they can’t afford, it makes sense to go hunting for value on the open-market.

As such, here are three UFA’s forwards that the Toronto Maple Leafs could sign for cheap.