![]() Then, the Blackhawks and Brent Seabrook and Duncan Keith with Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews, while the Capitals had former Vezina Trophy winner Braden Holtby with Alex Ovechkin and Evgeny Kuznetsov.Īll of those roster had the high-end offensive skill, but they also had a goaltender or defenseman that was one of the best in the league, whereas Toronto has never had that. ![]() ![]() Tampa Bay had Victor Hedmen and Andrei Vasilevskiy to go alongside Steven Stamkos and Nikita Kucherov. ![]() The Pittsburgh Penguins had Kris Letang and Matt Murray to offset Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin. The Toronto Maple Leafs have continued to be compared to team’s like the Colorado Avalanche, Tampa Bay Lightning, Pittsburgh Penguins, Chicago Blackhawks and Washington Capitals of the past decade, but there’s two things that those teams had that Toronto didn’t: A number-one defenseman and/or a rock-solid goalie.įor example, Colorado had a Norris Trophy winning defenseman in Cale Makar to complement Nathan MacKinnon and Mikko Rantanen. Toronto Maple Leafs Don’t Have What it Takes To Win Right Now When you have Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner on your roster, you need to balance out the rest of the team to give them the best chance to win. Sure, Joseph Woll could go on a run and look like a number-one goaltender for a few weeks, but are we really putting all of our faith in him? They have four of the best offensive players in the world, but they don’t have enough to win. Is this team one of the top-five most talented teams in the NHL? 100 percent, YES! How many times is this organization going to go through a season with this group and realize, they don’t have all of the right pieces to win? However, when the playoffs come around, the team’s best players haven’t carried enough weight and they’ve been beaten every year in the first round, except one. Over the past few years, the Leafs have used the approach of “stud’s and dud’s” and it has won them many games during the regular season. I know that this roster is good, but why in the world are they not trying to upgrade? Reports indicate that Sheldon Keefe will remain as the head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs to start the 2023-24 season, while Brendan Shanahan’s intention is to keep the team’s core-four. He joins Craig Adams '99 (2006, 2009) and George Owen '23 (1929) as Stanley Cup winners that played for Harvard.It feels like the Toronto Maple Leafs are going to run it back with the same core, which is extremely disappointing. Killorn, a First Team All-American and First Team All-ECAC Hockey selection, finished his Harvard career with 109 points (53 goals, 56 assists) in 130 games played. ![]() During the NHL stoppage of play, Killorn's Dock Talk interviews and live stream on Instagram became very popular, as Killorn developed his own merchandise, 100% profit of which was donated to the Hillsborough Education Foundation. In 24 postseason games with the Lightning, Killorn recorded 10 points (five goals, five assists) playing a critical role as one of the team's top two-way forwards.Īn alternate captain, Killorn was nominated for The Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy given to the NHL player best exemplifying perseverance, sportsmanship, and dedication to hockey. Killorn was on pace to break Ted Donato's record for points (54) in an NHL campaign by a Harvard alum. The Halifax, Nova Scotia native was in the midst of his best NHL campaign, with 49 points (26 goals, 23 assists) in 68 games before the suspension of the 2020 NHL regular season due to the CoVID-19 pandemic. In his eighth NHL season, Killorn won his first title in his second trip to the Stanley Cup Finals with the team that drafted him in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft. – Former Harvard men's ice hockey standout Alex Killorn '12 became the third player in program history to raise the Stanley Cup, as the Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the Dallas Stars to win the 2020 Stanley Cup Final. ![]()
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