If things go even OK this summer, the Toronto Maple Leafs should begin the season next October as the odds-on favorites to win a Stanley Cup.
No team in the league can match an Auston Matthews/ John Tavares 1-2 punch down the middle. And anyone close doesn’t have a Mitch Marner, a Morgan Rielly or a Freddie Andersen.
The Leafs are stacked and so I recommend that they make one single move that is more about sentimental feelings than any real desire to improve the team.
Bring Me Dion Phaneuf
Dion Phaneuf was acquired and marketed as a savior of sorts, and while he could never live up to the hype, he did his best.