Toronto’s Marleau Dump Keeps Paying Off - For Someone Else

Toronto paid a real price to move on from Patrick Marleau, and the final chapter on that deal is still writing itself. The kind of conditional pick that looks like dead money in one era can suddenly become very alive when the standings break the right way. That is the harsh math of cap cleanup in the NHL, where yesterday’s bad contract can turn into tomorrow’s playoff problem. Leafs fans know this feeling all too well, and this one has another twist coming.