With the pain still relatively new, and the uninspired comments from locker room clean out day not exactly inspiring anyone to believe that the Leafs are committed to improving, but rather are waiting for the playoffs to align with their regular season, we’ve decided that someone needs to have reactionary plans for change if the Leafs aren’t willing to come up with them on their own. Enter our panel of experts, and the all important question for them, What change would you like to see made this off-season?
Jori Negin-Shecter:
In a dream world, a Marner for Eichel trade would be rad, but as far as realistic changes, it’s going to be a matter of shuffling deck chairs. You’re not trading your core pieces unless you get blown away because panic selling would be a mistake and Dubas hasn’t shown us to be a GM that makes panic moves. Perhaps creating a spot for Nick Robertson to play full time by moving on from Ilya Mikheyev or Pierre Engvall could make some sense. Something else I wouldn’t mind seeing is the Maple Leafs making a run at one or both of Phillip Danault and/ …
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Author: Jon Steitzer / The Leafs Nation