Toronto Maple Leafs Summer Time Player Movement Checklist: Who Stays + Who Goes

Ilya Lyubushkin: It was so unbelievably misguided to trade for him then use him on the top pairing. I think the Leafs will probably want to sign him, but with Benoit already here it seems unlikely because you just can't have so many bad puck-moving defensemen. He won't be back.

Joel Edmundson: He is one of the worst players in the NHL. He won't be back.

Again, he's a player I could see them wanting to sign, but the team would have to be delusional not to realize how much it hurt them having all these guys who can't pass or skate.

Mark Giordano: He is not coming back.

Simon Benoit: He'll be back, even though he shouldn't be. It was a mistake to pay him over the league minimum. Then again, maybe he will keep improving.

He went from one of the worst players in the NHL two years ago to being a top-six defender on a playoff team. The only problem here is that he can't play top-four and I think you'd want a better 3rd pairing than Benoit-Liljegren.

Martin Jones: Why would he be back? Good question, but it's the Leafs so I'll predict he does come back for reasons only Brad Treliving will know.

Ilya Samsonov: He is not coming back. If you bet a million dollars that he would not come back, the payout would probably only be five cents, because that is how high the odds are that he's gone.

Joseph Woll: Obviously back.