What's the next step for the Leafs after losing Hyman and Andersen?

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Charbel
August 16, 2021 (9:41 PM)

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After yet another disappointing ending to the Leafs season, Toronto decided to eliminate some of it's players.

As the The Leafs add another playoff disappointment to their resume, despite finishing as one of the top elite teams in the league with a record of 35-14-7, and won the division for the first time since the year 2000. In other words, that's 20 years of failure, sweat and tears!

As many fans thought this was the golden year! It was believed that the team was built differently this season as the top players ..Marner, Matthews were suppose to be the guys to take the fans to the promise land.

The curse just stayed put and all of us leafs fans, were just disappointed overall, from every Leaf player that was on the ice for Game 5, 6 and most importantly Game 7 vs The Canadiens.

So the leafs had to get things done, and thank god they didn't ship Marner because he was rumored to be traded after an other horrible playoff performance, but Marner has to be better on both ends on the ice, because the Leafs are not afraid to make big moves.

Zach Hyman was looking for 9-10 M$ a year, and to be honest with you, he doesn't deserver that money, and obviously he was one of the key parts of the leafs dominance in the regular season the last 3 years, but leafs were fine with letting him go, because they already are in a huge hole when it comes to their contracts for the big boys, as they overpaid Nylander, Marner and Matthews.

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If your going to clean the house, and do something with this roster, it has to start by giving up a couple of keys guys.

The other key guy, before this season, was Frederik Andersen, who was known to be the best goalie they had since ED Belfour, and we know that that's not true because James Reimer had similar performances, and showed up smaller, when they had a 4-1 lead in game 7 against the Bruins a couple of years ago.

Obviously, Andersen lost his starting job to a goalie that shocked everyone. Jack Campbell, who won as much as 11 games in a row by himself.

Andersen has been struggling all season long, with injuries, with unable to stop pucks, and Jack just came into Toronto and stole the job, and made some headlines in the NHL.

But now leafs lost key guys, but they still need to make some moves, because upfront, they will be missing the toughness and the grind that Zach Hyman gives on the ice.