Toronto Maple Leafs - Seyawash Qhasimy

Posted by Seyawash Qhasimy

In the last 5 seasons Toronto Maple Leafs continuously shuffled through the rosters to stay competitive in their division.

Eastern conference is packet with powerful teams, namely Montreal Canadians, Boston Bruins, Pittsburg and Washington capitals.  Boston Bruins the closest rivals battling with Blues series tide 2-2 to bring the Stanley cap back to Boston for the second time. This season Leafs had made big moves and maxed out their salary cap to acquire talents to gain a competitive edge over their rivalries, but fell short of their goal at least for this season.

It was a gamble spending millions signing young inexperienced players.

5 players combined makes up 50 percent of the team’s salary cap. Big names like Mike Babcock, Mitch Marner, Matthews and Kadri were suppose to give the team the best chance to win the cup, but did not live up to the expectations. 

Can we say Leafs are at rebuilding stage at this point? It’s hard to say after spending millions to sign those young superstars and not even advancing to the third round in playoffs.

This young team has a bright future in my opinion and a very good chance to win a Stanley cap under a very well known head coach Mike Babcock.

The question remains, what is it that Toronto Maple Leafs has to do to advance further towards the Stanley cap? Few major changes I believe they should allow to happen.

1. Leave an opening spots for other talents to come in and try out for the team.

2. Trade some high salary players to make some room in salary cap.

3. Resign free agents to a shorter term as oppose to long term.

4. Acquire a back up goalie to ease some of the stress from number one goalie

5. Establish a zero margin of error policy for the players and Coaches.

6. Allow criticism from the fans, a great way to allow the public be involved.

I truly believe Toronto has a great chance to win the cup with this roaster. Those young players should reflect on this season as the learning curve and put it behind them.

For many years now the fans have been patiently waiting and still believe that this Toronto Maple Leafs team can be the champions one day. Looking forward to the next season. Go Leafs GO!!

Edited by Qhasimy Seyawash