3 things the Toronto Maple Leafs need to do before Training Camp

Clear a bunch of cap space and make room for rookies

The Toronto Maple Leafs have basically no cap space, but they do have cap flexibility.

What I mean by that is that they have quite a bit of cap space they could theoretically open up by jettisoning some of their expensive bottom-of-the-lineup players.

For a team that has committed so much money to so few players, you'd think the Leafs wouldn't be so quick to overpay their role players, but Treliving seems completely oblivious to this fact.

While OEL is extremely overpaid for a 3rd pairing defenseman who is 33, he hasn't even played a game yet for the Leafs and isn't going anywhere. The players who can be moved are Conor Timmins, Ryan Reaves, David Kampf and Calle Jarnrkok.

Timmins is the team's 7th defender, but they also have Topi Niemela and Mikko Kokkanen looking to break into the NHL, so he's expendable. He makes $1.1 million.

Ryan Reaves is the NHL's worst player, he makes $1.35. David Kampf is the NHL's most expensive fourth liner and he makes $2.4 million. Calle Jarnrkok is below Knies, Domi, Marner, Nylander, McMann and Robertson on the depth chart. He has no obvious spot to play and is about to turn 33 and makes $2.1 million.

How any of these guys are still on the roster is beyond me. In fact, it gives me next to no confidence in management to realize that it's August, they're capped out, have an incomplete roster, and yet still have all these guys on the team.

These four players combine to make almost $7 million dollars. That is insane for this team. What are they even doing?