SIMMONS: Mad scientist GM Kyle Dubas has built jigsaw puzzle Leafs Via simmonssteve
Trade deadline is normally an add a piece, subtract a piece, kind of exercise. The better teams are trying to upgrade. The Butch Goring kind of trade happens once in a lifetime. The lesser teams are trying to get rid of bad contracts for good draft picks. The mix and match works under normal conditions.
especially in hockey, and certainly not by creating an environment of uncertainty and hope by altering 25% of a dressing room.Article content If the Leafs looked like a team that didn’t know each other on Wednesday night in Edmonton it’s because they don’t know each other. Lines that haven’t been lines are playing together. Defence pairs that haven’t been defensive pairings are playing together. There are 20 games to go in the season and there are 20 games for coach Sheldon Keefe to figure out which 18 skaters fit best come playoff time, which lines and pairs work best, and for Keefe to make his boss, Dubas, look right.
You know who tends to win come postseason? The best coach with the best goalie with the best defenceman?If given the choice of Keefe, Ilya Samsonov and Morgan Rielly against Cooper, Vasilevskiy and Hedman,As general manager, it’s Dubas’ job to make the club better and have them ready for the post-season and ready for the seasons that come after this one.
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