If you follow the Toronto Maple Leafs, then you know this. It is – by far – the most frequently sited need that the team has.
The Leafs dressed Ron Hainsey, Nikita Zaitsev and Igor Ozhiganov as their most regular right side lineup last season.
Hainsey is a UFA and needs to retire. Zaitsev is terrible, misused in the top four and his contract must be exiled. Ozhiganov has already gone back to the KHL.
If the Leafs are going to replacing their entire right-side, they’re going to need some new right handed players.
Complicating things is that the players most ready to step into the NHL next year – Calle Rosen, Rasmus Sandin and Andreas Borgman – are all left handed.