Things are not looking good for the Toronto Maple Leafs right now. They’re currently in the midst of a three-game skid, second last in the Atlantic through 17 games played, and overall just look very inconsistent on the ice.
The Toronto Maple Leafs are not off to a good start this season. In fact… I’ll start my sentence again. Maybe the Toronto Maple Leafs thought the loss of Mitch Marner wouldn’t affect the team’s season flow.
Former Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Tomas Kaberle was impressed with the job head coach Craig Berube did in getting his team prepared for Game 1. The Leafs set the tone right off the hop with an emphatic win over the Ottawa Senators on Sunday.
If the Maple Leafs wanted to add some much-needed offensive firepower to their defense, they could look to Europe and sign a star blueliner playing in Sweden.
NHL head coaches have to hire good assistants. They have to set an overarching philosophy, juggle lineup configurations, and do the kind of “man management” that is impossible to track statistically.
There’s a pretty long list of offensive defencemen that Maple Leafs fans have blissfully chased out of town. Jake Gardiner, Larry Murphy, and Bryan McCabe are prime examples of that but players like Tomas Kaberle were not without their detractors as well, and John Klingberg…well…what I can say, sometimes running players out of town is justified.
We have now entered the dog days of hockey, at least for the Toronto Maple Leafs. They have essentially locked up a playoff spot; they need to wait for the standings to fall into place.
On this day in 2011, the Toronto Maple Leafs traded Tomas Kaberle to the Boston Bruins in exchange for a first-round pick in the 2011 NHL Draft, a second-round pick in 2023, and Joe Colborne.
The 2024 NHL All-Star Weekend in Toronto doesn't officially begin until Feb. 1 but that hasn't stopped the league from promotional kickoff events leading up to the league's annual exhibition showcase.