Sure, if Calgary had not had a glove pass and tied the game, and Matthews scored a second hat trick, we would also be talking about something else. However, Calgary had a glove pass and the officials didn't see it, the Flames scored, the video team noticed it, and the game ended in the Leafs favor. But yeah, there are huge l question marks.
This will be the reverse ultimate Leafy thing.
The Leafs' big problem is though they have scoring talent, they don't have any kind of offensive or defensive structure that a winning team needs to go along with said talent; Keefe's obsession with maintaining possession leads to them giving up bad scoring chances, and so they either need a really, really fast defense to get into position to break up some of the scoring chances they give up or they need a goalie that can make tons of tricky saves and steal games. I'd compare it to the '99 Leafs; they had some talented pieces, but the big differences between that team and the '98 team that missed the playoffs were a) Pat Quinn's defensive style and b) Curtis Joseph.
The problem with Bertuzzi is like Nick Ritchie before him, Keefe has NO IDEA how to effectively use a player like this.
Tavares is toast, Bertuzzi is meh and Willy has signed his retirement deal
Math adds up then. 5.5M for 6 goals and 11M for 12 goals. All is good folks
