With expansion draft over, heavy lifting for Leafs GM Dubas about to get underway
Until a few days ago, we and many others figured the Maple Leafs were going to lose forward Alex Kerfoot in the Seattle Kraken expansion draft, thereby freeing up some much-needed cash. Had Kerfoot been selected by Seattle, $3.5 million US against the salary cap would have come off the Leafs’ books in each of the next two seasons. And there was little chance Dubas went and traded with the Pittsburgh Penguins for forward Jared McCann, giving up prospect Filip Hallander and a seventh-round pick in...