Posts tagged with "Jake Gardiner"
The Maple Leafs' Achilles Heel
August 28th, 2017 The Toronto Maple Leafs are entering the 2017-18 season with massively increased expectations after a miraculous run that was the 2016-17 campaign.Some are predicting an Atlantic Division title and a playoff run long into the spring, even going as far as calling the Leafs a true Stanley Cup contender.Let's stop and take a breath....
Maple Leafs' Jake Gardiner Quiets Critics
August 23rd, 2017 Ever since Jake Gardiner's rookie season, fans have worried about his defensive play, always thinking he would turn the puck over. Defensemen develop at different speeds and some need a longer learning process. Gardiner is one of those defensemen, who at 27-years-old is just entering his prime.Skating has always been easy for...
Off-Season Home Improvements: Leafs Edition
May 3rd, 2017 Despite the surprising success of the Toronto Maple Leafs in securing a playoff spot this season (not to mention giving the hot-shot Presidents' Trophy-winning Capitals all they could handle in their first-round series) along with the continuing growth of a deep and plentiful farm system, there remains some significant work ahead for GM...
Leafs' First Round Series Hinges on Defense
April 17th, 2017 When the Toronto Maple Leafs dropped their final regular season game of the 2016-17 campaign against the Columbus Blue Jackets, it slotted the young team into a matchup with the Presidents' Trophy-winning Washington Capitals. As the NHL's top team for two consecutive years, few expected that the Leafs would legitimately compete with...Leafs' Weakness May Be Their Strength
April 17th, 2017 Fans of the Toronto Maple Leafs have been pleasantly surprised this year, the biggest reason being the way they’ve fared against the Washington Capitals in their first two games of the first round of the playoffs.After ending the 2016-17 regular season with 95 points and 40 games won, the Toronto Maple Leafs had the unfortunate...
Leafs' Most Underrated Player?
April 6th, 2017 The success, or lack thereof, of a given NHL team does not boil down to the contributions of its individual players, but rather, the play of the squad as a whole.It was, in fact, Aristotle who once voiced an opinion which, especially for the Toronto Maple Leafs, could not ring truer given the course of their 2016-17 campaign: "the...
