John Klingberg and Ryan Reaves joined the Toronto Maple Leafs this past summer for two different reasons and under two different deals.
The reasons being the misguided Toronto Maple Leafs management thought they needed an “enforcer” and “power-play specialist” on the back-end.
Despite neither player actually filling those roles throughout the beginning of this season, the one thing the two have shared in common is that they were both almost immediately one of the worst signings in the history of the franchise, which’s had tons of historically bad signings.
Following a horrendous team game against the Ottawa Senators in which Klingberg was on the ice for three goals while Reaves was on the ice for one, the Leafs were forced to ask themselves some hard questions and both players were benched this weekend.