Trendy.
Maybe best we let the author spell this out himself:
“The Leafs are making a valiant effort to get with the times under their nouveau-sophisticate president Brendan Shanahan.” However, Shanahan’s “analytics-fuelled thrust into the future” is doomed. Because even if the Leafs go “cuckoo for Corsi,” they’ve started too late and are a “mere lamb among a vast flock of sheep playing catch-up.”
Now, that’s the kind of article that can teach you a lot. A lot about indolence, for example. Because while our intrepid reporter is apparently an expert on sheep — and likely, on hoof rot — he missed out on one teensy, tiny little hockey-related fact:
That Brendan Shanahan actually learned puck possession in Detroit.