Bringing in mrazek to presumably replace Andersen is essentially a “Nonis” move- low risk, marginal reward. It was reminiscent of when Bernier was slowly inching out Reimer. Reimer was coming out of game 7 in the 2013 playoffs. The blame was put on Reimer for the loss despite the fact that Toronto was outplayed by the bruins and he played behind phaneuf, franson, gardiner (who was great), Fraser, o’byrne, gunarsson, and the team surrendered more than 30 shots per game. There were flaws in the defensive scheme where the bruins maintained pressure and possession consistently. Fast forward to now. Leafs were just eliminated by the bruins again. Now someone has the audacity to suggest that we should repeat history?
What if instead of making a low risk no reward moves, we...I don’t know...fix the defence or acquire players who can prevent shots...or adopt better breakout schemes and cut the damn cycle from the opposing team.
With that being said, there is optimism where if the leafs choose not to resign jvr, bozak, or komarov (and they shouldn’t), I can imagine a team built on speed. We need to develop a plekanec 2.0 (he can probably get more money on the free market) and we need a center who does not have to be great defensively, but can hold their own and actually complement players.
Inb4 someone suggests Seabrook, trouba, or some defensman who generates shots but does not do the thing we need...prevent shots or entries. Those threads are agonizing to read and are not solutions to anything.
Random thoughts: we should go after merill, demers...we should have went after hjalmarsson when we had the chance.
