I don't know...people said the same thing about Tampa when they lost to CBJ in round one and couldn't get over the hump.
Then same thing was said about Florida and then they made the Huberdeau- Tkachuk trade and it changed their trajectory.
We've said the same thing about Edmonton and they made the finals last year and looks like they will be final 4 at worst this year.
IMO the Leafs could win, but they needed to make a bold move to move out one of their high paid forwards for a different type of player (they tried to get Rantanen but he wanted to stick it to Colorado by going to Dallas) but they've kind of just shuffled chairs around the edges and spend a ton of assets bringing in non-elite talent (Treliving's MO)
Window isn't closed but they need to try something different. Issue is they spent all their assets and Marner is a UFA now.
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