Friday, January 8, 2021

Dave Feschuk: Auston Matthews is at the centre of the Maple Leafs’ special teams experiment, with echoes of the Mike Babcock era


Leafs fans ought to be a little trepidatious about Sheldon Keefe’s plans to resuscitate one of Mike Babcock’s least successful bits of Leaf-on-Leaf conflict: splitting the four most productive power-play point getters between two separate units. Auston Matthews has also warmed to the idea of killing penalties. There are several angles to consider, Dave Feschuk writes.

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