Which Maple Leafs players will receive qualifying offers? The key RFAs for the Leafs are Pierre Engvall, Ondrej Kaše and Rasmus Sandin. While qualifying Sandin is a no-brainer, the cap situation makes the others harder to predict.
While hockey fans may have their eyes focused on noon Wednesday – when unrestricted free agency opens up – there are still a few bookkeeping items that will keepIt starts Monday, with a 5 p.m. deadline for teams to issue qualifying offers to their restricted free agents. The key RFAs for the Leafs are Pierre Engvall, Ondrej Kaše and Rasmus Sandin.
Qualifying Sandin is a no-brainer, since the defenceman has very little bargaining power. But Engvall and Kaše have arbitration rights. The Leafs have to weigh the likelihood of the player taking them to arbitration and winning his case. The teams and players can continue to negotiate, but if Kaše wins a case for less than $4,538,958, the Leafs would be locked into the salary. Anything over, and the Leafs could walk away, making him a free agent. For a team with only a tad over $10 million in cap space, and still looking for a goalie, or two, the risk of losing an arbitration case could be too costly for the Leafs to take.
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