Maple Leafs Eye Massive Salute: $60M Offer for Star Player Ahead of Final Push
Toronto might have to figure something out here.
(Getty Images) Maple Leafs urged to cut ties with $60 million veteran amid nightmare season originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Toronto Maple Leafs haven't had the season anyone in the organization would've wanted.
Now, it's time to ask hard questions. Are there players that need to go? How do they rebound from this?
Sportsnet's Nick Kypreos thinks that the next move has to be a bold one -- figuring out a way to get rid of defenseman Morgan Rielly. Rielly is in the fourth year of an eight-year, $60 million contract. He makes $7.
5 million a year, meaning he still has $30 million due to him after this season. He hasn't played up to that level, though, and the Leafs have been hurt because of that. “And Morgan Rielly, guys, come on," Kypreos said this weekend, via NHL Trade Talk .