Toughness and size are two words that have been grossly overused in the past seasons when discussing the Toronto Maple Leafs. Before you click off this article, hear me out, this isn’t your typical skill-first focus.
I’m a Clinical Exercise Physiologist, basically identical to a Kinesiologist in Canada. That means I study and have a massive passion in the development of the human body.
Due to this passion, I get driven mad by the ideology that the inherent physique and traits of an individual athlete are somehow unimprovable. If this were the case, the Toronto Maple Leafs sport science team, and every sport science team for every sporting team in the world, would be completely and utterly redundant.