Twenty-one million dollars.That’s how much the Toronto Maple Leafs spent against the cap in one day on July 1, and the figure is even higher if you factor in Nick Paul’s incoming contract with a $3.15 million cap hit. Add in other recent newcomers — Darren Raddysh, Emil Andrae and Gavin McKenna — and it’s been a nine-player, nearly $40 million overhaul by new GM John Chayka over the past two weeks.That’s about as dramatic a remodeling as we’ve seen in the NHL in the salary-cap era, with the caveat that the Leafs’ top forward group remains intact.Toronto now has a lot of forwards signed and Morgan Rielly remains on the roster, so I’d be careful about couching the roster as complete. But given there’s nothing imminent coming in terms of dramatic changes, we have a chance to pause and assess where the lineup is at.After entering free agency with boatloads of space, the Leafs are now over the cap and into long-term injured reserve with Max Domi’s salary there. As a result, I didn’t have any Marlies on the roster, even though there’s room for a Bo Groulx or Zack MacEwen, if necessary.It’s probably worth noting, too, that all that’s included here cap-wise for McKenna is his base salary, and he very well could earn entry-level bonuses that can either count against the cap this year or get carried over to next season. So using every scrap of cap room in 2026-27 may have those consequences.As for the line combinations and defense pairings, I tried to go with what I think the organization is looking at at this early stage. The good news about what the Maple Leafs have done is they have a ton of options for moving players around, as they’ve added a lot of forwards who can play on the wing or down the middle (Jack Roslovic, Paul, Colton Sissons) and a defenseman in Andrae who can play his off-side on the right. There’s more utility and malleability to the lineup than what they entered last season with.Creating some sort of tough matchup checking line that eats a ton of D-zone starts feels like a must, and Sissons is probably the natural center for it. Paul could also take that role, but you might want to be able to play him up the lineup more at times. Toronto now has five grinder-type bottom-six forwards who could contribute on a line like that, including Teddy Blueger, Brandon Duhaime, Dakota Joshua and Steven Lorentz.I’ve put Easton Cowan down on what’s nominally the “fourth” line because the Leafs are going to want to generate some offense from the bottom six, and the Joshua-Blueger duo showed the ability to do that playing with Conor Garland in Vancouver. But Cowan is obviously more than just a depth piece and could play his way up the lineup as a 21-year-old, taking minutes away from the Roslovic types on the right side.