Why The Toronto Maple Leafs Need Another Goaltender
from Dave Feschuk of the Toronto Star,
A little more than a week away from the NHL’s trade deadline, here’s what we can say for sure about the Maple Leafs’ goaltenders: They sure could use another one.
Because if the playoffs started today, let’s face it: All of Toronto’s possibilities between the pipes would have a rather large question mark attached to their name.
Maybe there’d be comfort in seeing familiar Frederik Andersen in goal. Except that Andersen, in the midst of a pressure-packed contract year, is having the worst statistical season of his career while nursing a lower-body problem that’s kept him out of the lineup going on two weeks. On Thursday, head coach Sheldon Keefe said that Andersen’s recovery is “progressing well,” but that he won’t be available to join the team for the three games remaining on the four-game Western road swing that continues Friday in Winnipeg.
Even if the Dane can round himself into game shape before the playoffs begin in mid-May, there’s the small matter of rediscovering the confidence he recently acknowledged he’s lost this season.
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