How Did The Toronto Maple Leafs Fix Their Powerplay? | SDP

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1. My idea of a wild night now involves staying up late to catch up on my favorite TV show and eating an entire pint of ice cream. Who needs sex when you have Ben & Jerry's🧡

2. Haven’t watched the video yet; but I assume that the Leafs fixed their PP the same way I did—steroid injections at the point where it was bent.

3. The thumbnail title

4. Matthew Knies, he's the only guy that will go in the trenches an stay there

5. Got rid of that Matthew's dog who was dragging them down.
   The big problem for the Leafs is they have three great forwards that can drive their own lines and nowhere near the personnel to flesh out even two of those lines. That is a cap problem and roster construction problem based on their overpayment of their top five players. The way to fix it has been obvious and the need to fix it has been apparent since their 2019/20 playoff run when they made playoff heroes out of Pierre Luc Dubois (hat-trick and overtime game winner in game three), Joonas Korpisalo (shut outs in games one and five). and Nick Foligno. One of these overpriced forwards needs to go. $13.25 million a year for Matthews is ridiculous. The fact that they only got him for four years at that price is doubly so. I think he is going to be shocked at what he turns out to be worth at age 31. He is unlikely to luck into even John Tavares money at that age. The power play defers to Matthews.

   The Montreal Canadiens are deep into a rebuild with a team that still hasn't divested themselves of all their expensive veterans. When they lose David Savard the defense will be even worse. And it is terrible.
   No Brock Faber's or Noah Dobson's or even Mario Ferraro's developing on the blue line in Montreal.