Ben Scrivens, newly married and more talkative than ever, can do it all.

In fact, if the Toronto Marlies netminder can pick up this fall in the AHL where he left off last spring in the Calder Cup final, he can, in no particular order:

• Earn himself a full shot at NHL work when the lockout ends.

• Rationalize the goalie depth chart in the Leaf organization.

• Prove himself to be perhaps the smartest free-agent signing of the Brian Burke era.

• Help the Maple Leafs avoid taking on one of the worst contracts in the NHL, one that may be even more onerous by the time a new collective bargaining agreement is hammered out.

Yes, it’s clear that Scrivens, who curiously doesn’t seem to have people as excited about his talent as did Felix Potvin when he came roaring out of St. John’s two decades ago after nearly winning an AHL championship, holds the key to solving a host of issues for Burke and Co.

For starters, with Jonas Gustavsson gone, there’s a wide-open vacancy behind James Reimer and, who knows, maybe in front of Reimer.

If NHL camps had opened on time, a Reimer-Scrivens combination would have been almost a no-go, with one coming off a so-so NHL season and the other with only one full AHL campaign under his belt.

But the lockout means that Scrivens, starting Saturday, will be playing games in the AHL and possibly dominating that league again, particularly if the Marlies can quickly master the defensive scheme changes mandated by Leafs head coach Randy Carlyle. This buys the Leafs some time. If Scrivens can show over the coming weeks that last year wasn’t a fluke and he has completed his AHL apprenticeship, it alters the risk factor of going with the Reimer-Scrivens duo.

That would theoretically leave Jussi Rynnas and Mark Owuya to share the goaltending duties with the Marlies, giving both a chance to get more work than if Scrivens was there. More than a few people are quietly excited about Owuya’s potential, plus his extraordinary work ethic.

All three goalies, of course, were free-agent signings by the Burke administration. Burke has done decently with free agents, but not brilliantly.

Tyler Bozak and Clarke MacArthur are in the NHL lineup, Mike Komisarek, Philippe Dupuis, Gustavsson, Rickard Wallin and Colton Orr disappointed, while Christian Hanson, Brayden Irwin and a few others didn’t make it at all. Francois Beauchemin wasn’t a hit in Toronto, but he was turned into a deal that brought Jake Gardiner and Joffrey Lupul to town.

There wasn’t a big fuss made over Scrivens when he turned down other offers and signed with the Leafs, ostensibly because of his existing relationship with the now departed Francois Allaire.

He’s played 12 NHL games so far, and had some good moments. If the 26-year-old can take the next step and succeed, the Allaire connection will have paid dividends despite the controversial conclusion to goalie coach’s Leaf tenure.

That, of course, would also either remove any leverage the Vancouver Canucks have in trying to pry a pricey package out of the Leafs in exchange for veteran goalie Roberto Luongo, or would end Toronto’s interest entirely.

It’s never made much sense that the Leafs would give up much of anything to get Luongo — relief from that horrible contract is what the Canucks would get, nothing more — but in the wake of last season’s collapse there was a sense of desperation about the Leafs and their goaltending situation.

Now, with no games, nobody’s desperate. The best opportunity for Vancouver GM Mike Gillis to expand the market beyond one team (Florida) might have been at the beginning of the summer when Leaf angst was high.

Now? Meh.

If the NHL opens for business in December, and if the new CBA makes carrying Luongo’s contract even more onerous, the Canucks may not only not be able to get anything for him, they may be stuck with him.

For the Leafs, that $5.33 million annual cap hit could be spent on something else, assets would be saved and certainly avoiding a contract that doesn’t expire for another decade can’t be a bad thing.

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Now if Scrivens stumbles early with the Marlies, none of this works. Without a viable NHL option, the Leafs might well have to pay more than they want to get Luongo, Rynnas and Owuya will have to get by on scraps of playing time with the Marlies and Scrivens might have to wait a long time to get a bona fide NHL shot.

It’s up to the kid from Cornell, really. He can do it all.

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