The Toronto Maple Leafs aren’t where they’d like to be early in the season. While results haven’t been disastrous, the team hasn’t yet lived up to expectations. Struggling to beat lower tier teams has plagued the Leafs early on.
Finding the path to success can be difficult, especially when you have $20 million to spend in the summer and flush most of it down the toilet, as new Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brad Treliving did.
While goaltending has, at times, been shaky and unreliable, the team’s biggest weakness is their blue-line. They haven’t given the tandem of Ilya Samsonov and Joseph Woll enough help.