Toronto Maple Leafs Punished By the NHL’s Poor Application of Their Own Rules

Last year, the Toronto Maple Leafs power-play wasn’t the advantage to the team that it should have been.

When I look at the unique way this current Toronto Maple Leafs team is built, hinged upon valuing speed and skill over the traditional course of action teams have taken by making toughness a priority, I don’t understand how they have not been able to consistently have a palpable penalty differential as a team.

The leafs no longer have a single player known for taking plenty of penalties such as a Roman Polak, Matt Martin or James “Tiger” Williams, but in 2018-2019 they found themselves at a -1 in team penalty differential while at the same time taking the second least amount of penalties…