saving cap and adding heart and sandpaper

The Leafs simply need more heart and grit if they want to beat Boston in the playoffs let alone beat CBJ who are stacked on D with Jones and Werenski

Adding washed up players and third liners while getting rid of top end two-way talent is not the way to do it. They arent trading Marner or Nylander or Robertson or Rielly.. they just arent. They have heart and they have grit.

If they have heart and grit then how come they let up 9 goals to Florida when they're in a playoff race with them. Also who is washed in the traded I'm making????

**** games happen to every single team in the NHL. Heart and grit showed in a way of them making playoffs in top-3 of their division despite injuries, coaching change and other shenanigans along the way. Who is washed up? Doughty, Vlasic. Risto is not good, Murray had ****ty season.. also why even swap more gritty and tough prospect for less gritty and tough prospect?

According to my friend, teal, who is very in to analytics and programmed a grit/60 stat, Leason was a top 10 grit prospect in last years draft while Robertson was in the 30s. Doughty not good? then how come NHL players themselves voted him as being so good? do you know more than them?. Vlasic is simply an elite shutdown DFD, and Risto is tall and whatnot. And he did that double check once which was cool.