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Sandin then has the full season to help him make that next step in his game. We concede that Muzzin is the better player, but if Sandin is given his spot in the lineup this team is still going to win a lot more than it loses. They also haven’t made it past the first round of the playoffs in four seasons with Muzzin on the team. They went 24-11 with him out of the lineup in 2021-22. On top of that, the Maple Leafs have shown they can win in the regular season without Muzzin. Related: The WHA – A Look Back at the Upstart Hockey League However, his skills are deteriorating and the style of game he needs to play has taken its toll on his body. I agree that if Muzzin stays healthy, and that is a big “if,” at this point in his career he’s a better player than Sandin. That means the situation comes down to a choice of maybe getting another year or two out of 33-year-old Jake Muzzin, or staying invested in the development of a player that projects to be a top-four defenseman.
How can the Maple Leafs find a way to give Sandin the ice time he needs? Rielly and Giordano, with their new contracts in hand, are not going anywhere. With Morgan Rielly, Jake Muzzin, and Mark Giordano ahead of him on the left side of the defense there does not appear to be a place for him in the lineup. Sandin simply wants to play, and he needs to play. This isn’t a case of a player being greedy either. Mark Giordano, Toronto Maple Leafs (Photo by Kevin Sousa/NHLI via Getty Images) They had ten players 30 years or older, six of them 35 or older, and two of them in their 40s. The 1967 Stanley Cup Champion Maple Leafs were one of the oldest teams to ever win the cup. They have been doing that for as long as I can remember. The mistake they keep repeating is to deal away young fresh talent in return for older experienced players. There is, however, a much bigger age-old problem that has plagued the Maple Leafs for over half a century, and it appears they might make the same error again.
A Bigger Problem Has Plagued the Maple Leafs I do not think that Sandin’s value is being overestimated. I personally project that the two of them are destined to be solid top-four defensemen. They are both very talented in their own unique ways. Since Sandin and Timothy Liljegren were both drafted I have closely monitored the progress of each of them.
Untouched in the Old Prof’s post is a key question regarding Sandin’s skill level and his importance to the future of the team. A Key Point in This Conversation Is Sandin’s Value He then believes that the organization, because it wants to keep the players they’ve developed, often capitulate to agent’s demands for over-market value. The pattern the Old Prof said needed to be changed was the pattern of over-valuating the Maple Leafs’ own prospects and younger players on the team to the point where these players are signed for more than their market value. Rasmus Sandin, Toronto Maple Leafs ( Amy Irvin / The Hockey Writers)
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