Brendan Shanahan on Mitch Marner’s importance to the Maple Leafs: “Anybody who can get you 100 points and also be one of the top one or two defensive forwards in the NHL means you are a special player”

We sat here at the end of last season and talked about our goal. Not completely different from most offseasons, we wanted to do a top-to-bottom and very thorough review of our organization and how we could get better.

We had a busy offseason. We will get into more details, and Brad will speak to more of those details, but I was very pleased with the work that we did. Several changes were made to our coaching staff and roster.

We come back here with the same goal that we have had for the last several years, determined to get to where we want to be.