The Leafs’ Organizational Depth Chart, as of today

The Toronto Maple Leafs have made a lot of moves over the past few days, weeks, months… okay, this organization has been in constant churn since sometime last season. With that considered, I figured that it would make sense to organize the mess into something a bit easier to consume.

Note that all lists are sorted by age, rather than any form of actual rankings.

Assuming all holds right now, Toronto will be losing Michael Grabner, PA Parenteau, Brad Boyes, Raffi Torres, Rich Clune, Ben Smith, Colin Smith, and Sam Carrick to Free Agency. Peter Holland and Josh Leivo have been tendered qualifying offers and will continue to negotiate with the team. What’s good here is that Toronto has next to no long-term commitments: outside of ELC’s, only Nazem Kadri is being paid beyond 2017/18.

Likewise, Toronto will be losing TJ Brennan, Stuart Percy, and Alex Stalock, while they continue to negotiate with Martin Marincin, Frank Corrado, Connor Carrick, and Garret Sparks. Once again, Morgan Rielly (2021/22), Jake Gardiner (2018/19), and Frederik Andersen (2020/21) are the only ones with term attached to them.

The Leafs walked away from Tony Cameranesi this year, after giving him an Amateur Tryout with the Marlies and deciding that he wasn’t worth an entry level contract. They also continue to hold the rights of JJ Piccinich in spite of his age, thanks to him being technically drafted out of college. Fabrice Herzog is considered to be as good as gone, but players can sometimes come around; Leo Komarov was basically given up on for a long stretch, for example.

Not a ton here, but it’s nice to see that Woll is the youngest player in the organization. They have a lot of time to develop him into the goaltender that they hope he is.

The Marlies like to have a few extra players at their disposal, both for the sake of injuries and for the sake of filling up the Orlando Solar Bears. We may see some of the Eric Faille and Brady Vail-type players return before the end of the summer, or get replaced, but this is the group that was pre-committed to throughout the season. I watched Conacher play in Junior A and scouts believed him to be better than his brother Cory, but Cory didn’t exactly pan out after a cinderella AHL season. Brouillard had an interesting run to the Memorial Cup this year, and could be worth keeping an eye on.

Just some loose cap ends; the Leafs have $7 million in clear cap room at the moment, but have at least a $5.3M buffer in Nathan Horton’s LTIR, should they decide to exceed the cap. They can go as high as $7.3M over until opening night, at which point they can’t be higher than Horton’s cap hit.

It’s been speculated that Stephane Robidas will continue to sit out the end of his contract, and that the team might strongly suggest to Joffrey Lupul that he do the same. That’s another potential $8.25M in dead weight to either be concerned about our play with, depending on how you see the team.

Toronto also has to concern themselves with two more years of Tim Gleason’s buyout ($1.33M), and six more years of retaining Phil Kessel ($1.2M). Though, they have a $650,000 cap credit for buying out Jared Cowen this year.

Overall, though, the cupboards are full and the organization is younger than ever. Most of the system, even up top, is under the age of 25, and those that aren’t have by and large been linked to the trade block. It’ll be interesting to see if/how the Leafs try to add to, or remove from this pool in the coming weeks and months.