The Toronto Maple Leafs are going to be in tough to repeat the success of the last four years.
The Toronto Maple Leafs are not the team they were entering the playoffs, which is to be expected since they had 10 expiring contracts and lost a lot of talent.
The problem is that the Leafs aren’t as good as they were a year ago.
The goalies could go either way, but the defense is brutal and the forwards are much worse than they were last as well (since replacing the insane value that Bunting brought for $900K is going to be nearly impossible, let alone the fact that they are now missing the magical ability of the Engvall/Kampf combo to shut down star players).