If you are going to base your opinion on 1 game then that entire team should retire right now because they didn't look like they gave a single f***.
Correct, if based on 1 game the Leafs should have folded the team after the Columbus game.
Kane can hit spots with his wrister and pass to the tape.
He’s played most of the year with Domi and Athanasiou and often lately with Tyler Johnson.
Domi and Johnson are both “ok” but better for a 3rd line role. Athanasiou needs his own puck, he adds nothing to a “line”. There is nobody who retrieves the puck because Domi is setting up for a shot.
Kane is on his game when the goalie and defense has to try to play the pass for a 1 timer and his shot. Defenses skate to him because he doesn’t have options and they know it. Domi doesn’t move to find that lane
Even on this shitty team if he played regularly with the likes of Dickinson and Raddysh I think his production would be much better.
Having just written that book I still say you pass on Kane. Dickinson, Lafferty, Tinordi and McCabe make TML a favorite. If Chicago takes back Muzzin, Holl and Kerfoot.
And don’t laugh at Tinordi, he plays actual defense about equal to Holl and he plays mean. Would be good in the playoffs.
McCabe better than Muzzin,
Tinordi = Holl
Dickinson + Kerfoot
Lafferty + Simmonds
AND Toronto walks away with about 3 mill in cap to do more.
If wouldn’t be cheap but they are a cup favorite at that point.
Plus you get to laugh at Vancouver fans for Canuck medical people not taking an X-ray of Dickinson’s hand last year.