Holland Signs Back Up in Toronto

Peter Holland was also supposed to have his arbitration hearing today between himself and the Maple Leafs, but the two sides were able to come together before the nastiness began, agreeing to a bridge deal, 1-year at $1.3 million.

Holland has been a reasonably reliable 3rd line-type player, who has posted seasons in the 25-point range, last season picking up 27 points in 65 games, but has also run into some injury problems from year-to-year as well, including a concussion.

He was certainly one of those players that benefited a lot from the pool membership expansion to 27 teams, since he finished on the cusp of the worthiness list, 213th among all forwards in scoring.  If he can get his health sorted out to a point that he can play 75+ games, he wouldn't need the pool to get any bigger to stay a worthy player, as I think he can get himself up to the scoring range of much better players.

Nevertheless, it is turning out to be a process in need of some patience and projecting him at 35 points is pretty reasonable and could just as easily make him into a bargain pick, if he finds a way to break out with some of the other youth on this Leafs roster.

The Leafs' roster is now rounding out and they are going to be right up against the ceiling to start the season, if not digging into the Long Term Injured Reserve jar, thanks to the Nathan Horton hit.  All the players in colour, making up a 23-man roster (plus one injury, retained cap hits and buyouts), are now coming in with $622,000 left under the ceiling.  The Leafs still have Frank Corrado and Martin Marincin to go through arbitration as restricted free agents and they likely have their eye on another backup goalie.  This could be interesting.

Forwards	Cap	Defense	Cap	Goalies	Cap
Nazem Kadri	4.500	Morgan Rielly	5.000	Frederik Andersen	5.000
James Van Riemsdyk	4.250	Jake Gardiner	4.050
Tyler Bozak	4.200
Leo Komarov	2.950
Peter Holland	1.300
Joffrey Lupul	5.250	Jared Cowen	3.100	Garret Sparks	0.575
Brooks Laich	4.500	Stephane Robidas	3.000
Milan Michalek	4.000	Roman Polak	2.250
Colin Greening	2.650	Matt Hunwick	1.200
Matt Martin	2.500
Auston Matthews	0.925	Viktor Loov	0.693
William Nylander	0.894
Mitchell Marner	0.894
Kasperi Kapanen	0.863
Nathan Horton	5.300
Zach Hyman	0.900	Travis Dermott	0.894	Kasimir Kaskisuo	0.925
Frederik Gauthier	0.894	Rinat Valiev	0.778	Antoine Bibeau	0.655
Kerby Rychel	0.894	Connor Carrick	0.750
Andreas Johnson	0.751
Nikita Soshnikov	0.737
Connor Brown	0.718
Tobias Lindberg	0.693
Andrew Nielsen	0.670
Dmytro Timashov	0.663
Brendan Leipsic	0.653
Josh Leivo	0.613
Byron Froese	0.575

Pool worthy, non-pool roster players, assumed roster fill-ins,  injured/retired cap hits, in the system