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Originally Posted by savemedrzaius
Hit stat is very subjective. Kerfoot apparently threw 54 hits last year. But as a Leaf fan I'm looking more at chippy after the whistle stuff. Bruins, Lightning, Panthers in the playoffs are constantly pulling that crap. League never cracks down on it. Leafs have tried to play the clean game. But the League constantly wants to call games even. Each team gets the same amount of PPs. Leafs are always near the bottom of the league in PPOs every single year. Why? Because they don't commit a lot of penalties so the refs don't want to give the opposing team too many PPs. I'm liking Tree's approach. Bring in a bunch of #### disturbers. Get more PKOs but Leafs will also get more PPOs because of how Reffing works in this league. Plus it's a much more entertaining brand of hockey. I didn't even watch the last 3 months of Leafs hockey last year because the matchup was set and the games were just so boring. Nothing interesting ever happened. I'm all for bringing some juice back to this team.
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Depth too, getting a couple 40 point guys like Bertuzzi and Domi and shipping out an 80 point guy like Nylander.