No. 2: Antoine Roussel
On a league-minimum contract, the 33-year-old Roussel could be a welcomed player on Toronto’s fourth-line next year.
The Toronto Maple Leafs currently have Kyle Clifford and Wayne Simmonds who will be playing a similar role as Roussel, but Roussel may be able to score a few goals closer to Jason Spezza’s pace than those two.
Roussel’s best skills are built towards his physicality, which is still something that Toronto needs to improve on.
Their bottom-six of the line-up has some physicality, but unlike Clifford and Simmonds, Roussel can still be a reliable penalty-killer, which is something you can never have too many of.
As previously mentioned, he’s not going to be asking for much more than minimum wage and that’s a positive on a cap-strapped team.
Bringing Roussel in for a season could add some experience and a change of scenery on a really good team may be able to spark him to score 10 goals as well, which would create extreme value for the Leafs.