The move to make for the Leafs

It is the dog days of summer, and that means news on basketball and hockey, the two main cogs of Ozel sports is dry. After reading a few articles around the web, it is time to look back at the Leafs problem of getting rid of Bryan McCabe or Pavel Kubina. As I’ve stated before, there are teams who need to actually add payroll in order to make the salary cap floor. One of those teams is significantly under, that team being the Los Angeles Kings, who currently need to add roughly 13 million in salary for next year in order to make the floor. The Kings are the perfect team to make a deal with. With Kubina’s no-trade clause kicking in again soon, something has got to give. Now ideally we would want McCabe to go, but if that is going to happen, were going to need Fletcher to act quick. Trying to get McCabe to lift that brutal no movement clause in his contract is going to take some time. Now because the Kings need desperately to add salary you can expect them to have no problem to taking on his contract. Not only that we can expect a good return of possibly a high end prospect and some high draft picks. The leafs also need to act quickly. Teams with players and high contracts they don’t want are going to swarm the kings layer like vultures on a rotting carcass. One of those teams will be the Chicago Blackhawks who have two high priced goalies. I’d be surprised if Khabibulin isn’t traded to the Kings in the near future, they need a goalie and they also need his 6.75 million bucks on the payroll. Other than one of those d men leaving, don’t expect the leafs to make any other moves. I am not sure what Sundin is going to do, and frankly it’s getting quite tiresome, make a decision already. Stay tuned for my next couple blogs that will feature my ratings on the baseball trade deadline moves and a look at our medal hopefuls for the Olympics.