When I joined the Toronto Maple Leafs’ front office in 2017, our team had a clear vision of how it eventually wanted to play:
Control the puck on exits and entries
Get off the wall and into the middle of the ice to create offensive advantages
Kill rushes early with a combination of tightly-gapped defensemen and backchecking forwards
Deploy the best hockey p…
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