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Why this is the Maple Leafs’ make-or-break season.
The Toronto Maple Leafs are now experiencing chaos. or, at minimum, a turnover one. A few weeks ago, the Leafs saw yet another exciting season come to an abrupt end when they lost to the Boston Bruins in their first-round Stanley Cup playoff series. This is the seventh time in the previous eight seasons that Toronto has lost in the opening round of the tournament.
True, the Leafs overcame a 3-1 series deficit to force a seventh game against the Bruins. However, Toronto’s overtime loss was an unjustified failure that cannot be disregarded or covered up. It must bring about a certain amount of change.
Toronto’s management group — president Brendan Shanahan, general manager Brad Treliving and Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment CEO Keith Pelley — spoke after the Leafs’ defeat with pointed public comments about how “everything was on the table” to get Toronto past its perennial playoff woes.
The first domino to fall was — predictably — head coach Sheldon Keefe, fired from his post on May 9 and replaced by Craig Berube on May 23.
That swap is just the beginning of what could — and should — be a transformative offseason for the Leafs. There’s more the club needs to address to avoid finding itself in a similar position this time next year.
ESPN had discussions with sources inside and outside the organization as a summer of change has already started. Here are the different angles in play for the Leafs.
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