Kyle Dubas on the differences in this year’s Maple Leafs team over past seasons: “A little bit more competitive, a little bit more sacrifice… More willing to put themselves on the line to win pucks and do the right things defensively”

Dubas: We made a number of different transactions over the course of the last several weeks that we feel set our team up competitively and give us the depth we need at all positions to compete come playoff time.

That was the goal of the entire exercise over the last couple of weeks: take the first part of the year and see where our team is at. In concert with Sheldon and our player personnel department, find out what is available, how it addresses the needs that we have, and try to go and address them.