The Leafs have plenty of perspective, but with all their improvements, they still don’t have ‘it’ Globe_Sports
Only nine months since he signed for the Toronto Maple Leafs, John Tavares already sounds like he’s been doing his bid here for 10 years.
This team does one thing at a league-best level – get perspective. There’s always a lot of perspective to go around when it comes to the Leafs, which is a funny way of explaining that performing poorly at hockey can be a moral victory. You just have to have the right perspective. Up and down the bench, the players you’d hope would get better at this time of year got a little worse. Goalie Frederik Andersen? Good until he wasn’t. Defenceman Jake Gardiner? Why doesn’t someone hypnotize this poor guy into believing every game is Game 5?
The perspective there is that the young Leafs are, well, young and will get better. Boston has a bunch of young stars – David Pastrnak, Jake DeBrusk, Charlie McAvoy. You’ll notice they don’t constantly require the benefit of perspective.You can also get perspective on everyone else. Patrick Marleau’s battery died. Nazem Kadri didn’t just blow a fuse, but the local power grid. Jake Muzzin was physically large, just not intimidatingly so.
Ultimately, it’s the perspective of a profitable, well supported, underperforming franchise that has made disappointment the defining feature of its culture.
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