Équipe: 2022-23 Maple Leafs de Toronto

Date de création initiale: 31 oct. 2022

Publié: 31 oct. 2022

Mode - plafond salarial: Basique

Disclaimer: Habs fan here, but I'd like to see the Leafs bring a cup back to Canada

Habs have been through this before and can offer some perspective. General managers who are too close to their coaches tend to have a hard time letting them go. Bergevin held onto Michel Therrien way too long and alienated a whole bunch of Habs players and he did it for 75% of our season.

Your problem is not your players, it's your coach. Keefe has been an offense-first coach for as long as he's been with the Leafs and now he's trying to get the team to play a defensive-stlye. The players are not buying in.

They DO need to play better defensively to win in the playoffs, but the players all know the GM/Coach are fired if this year goes badly and some of them are thinking about their next contracts.

I do think one of Marner or Nylander needs to get traded for a power forward. You will lose in skill, but you will get back a player who can score and push the other team around. Plus you can move some of that money onto defense or onto your other lines.