The Toronto Maple Leafs have a better defensive corps than they have ever had before. There’s no indication at all that the Maple Leafs would add a defender at the deadline. There are also very good expansion draft reasons not to add a defender who is going to stick around beyond this season.
But Leafs fans have been ritually chanting the name of a talisman defender for years, trying to work some kind of spell on the GM of the team to first have anyone at all that was capable, then maybe to go for two at a time, until we eventually hit years of begging for one more top pairing player, just one!