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| 11th December, 2008 - 11:47 am |  Toronto Star - As the league's governors gather in Florida to discuss the NHL's economic woes, there is growing speculation that the NHL's salary cap will decrease for the 2010-11 season.
That would put the Toronto Maple Leafs in an enviable position during the summer of 2010. Based on today's contracts, that off-season Toronto will be among the top five NHL teams when it comes to having the most money to spend in what will likely be a buyer's market.
Assuming they are not dealt before then, several big ticket players come off the Leafs' books. Pavel Kubina, ($5 million cap hit), Vesa Toskala ($4 million), Mike Van Ryn ($2.9 million), Alexei Ponikarovsky ($2.105 million), Lee Stempniak ($1.882 million), Matt Stajan ($1.75 million) and Jamal Mayers ($1.33 million) all become unrestricted free agents that summer. [READ] |
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