Toronto Maple Leafs: Core Has Been Built, Now To Tweak the Roster…

February 24th, 2011 by Mark Ritter Leave a reply »
There has been a lot of debate as to whether or not the Toronto Maple Leafs are a player or two away from playoff contention, or still a team caught in an exhausting rebuild that never seems to end.

The truth is, Maple Leafs general manager Brian Burke is just a player or two away from taking his team to the Promised Land, and the biggest reason this organization is finally headed in the right direction is his work over the past two and a half seasons.

If you were to look over the Maple Leafs' roster, a few things would stick out. First, Burke has only one player on the roster older than 30 years of age, veteran goaltender J.S. Giguere. Second, the current roster has a total of seven former first round draft choices on it.

If everything went according to plan, Giguere would be traded to another team before the February 28th trade deadline. Given Giguere’s current injury status, a trade will be next to impossible. That said, rest assured that come July 1st, Giguere will likely be wearing another NHL team's sweater, leaving Burke with zero players 30 years of age or older.

As it stands now, defensemen Mike Komisarek and ...

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