Good morning Toronto Maple Leafs fans!
We are weeks away from the 2022 NHL Trade Deadline and I was wondering what the last big deadline was for the Maple Leafs, and duh, it’s the one that ended an era.
The Maple Leafs were looking to draft Auston Matthews in 2016 to complete the rebuild. They had William Nylander and Mitch Marner, but you need a franchise centre to cap it all off.
Brendan Shanahan, Lou Lamoriello, and Kyle Dubas and others were working to put their stamp on the Maple Leafs, and this deadline was their chance to end the Brian Burke/Dave Nonis era once and for all.