Rejoint: août 2018
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I guess the biggest issues I see ias that you are way too reliant on all the forwards developing and being ready for BIG roles on a contender AND that defense will be even worse: Benoit becomes a top 6 for a contender, timmins suddenly discovers how to play defense, old man brodie keeps it together another year, and Liljegren a top 4 guy who doesn’t produce offensively enough, so its Reilly and a bunch of over the hill/underachievers/never-weres? And you’re marching out Jones like hes found the fountain of youth.
Ultimately, it seems like the Leafs and a lot of Leaf fans place no importance on defense or goaltending, and insist on this score at any/all means approach. This is just an exercise to see how they can maintAIN THE BIG 4, even though its apparent year after year that the structure doesn;t work/translate to the playoffs.
I know its all a what if/could we, but you have kind of ignored the main reason this team loses: defense