Toronto Maple Leafs Defense Left Embarrassed by Horrific December Stat Line
Throughout the month of December, the Toronto Maple Leafs defense was absolutely anemic offensively, and it led to a truly embarrassing stat.
Toronto Maple Leafs defensemen like Morgan Rielly have struggled so far this season, and this goes beyond just the realm of keeping the puck out of the team's zone.
If one thing has become clear this season, it is that the team's defensemen cannot score goals if their lives depended on it.
The Toronto Maple Leafs defense needs to be better
Unfortunately, this was very apparent during the month of December as the team went all 31 days without a single goal from its defense.
No, you are not reading that incorrectly. The last time a Maple Leafs defenseman scored a goal was all the way back on November 30th.
That was 32 days and 16 games ago. Who scored that goal? It was Chris Tanev in a game against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
Now, the Toronto Maple Leafs defense can enter 2025 with a clean slate as they take on the New York Islanders tonight.
Furthermore, the team has a back-to-back over the weekend against teams like the Boston Bruins and the Philadelphia Flyers.
During this stretch of games, Rielly, Tanev, Jake McCabe, and Oliver Ekman-Larsson will be expected to elevate their game and start contributing on the offensive side of things.
If you want to win a Stanley Cup, you need your defensemen to score goals every once in a while.
Hopefully, for the Leafs, this is just a blip on the radar and not something that is indicative of how the rest of the season will go.
| POLL | ||
JANVIER 2 | 164 ANSWERS Toronto Maple Leafs Defense Left Embarrassed by Horrific December Stat Line Who will be the next Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman to score a goal? | ||
| Morgan Rielly | 56 | 34.1 % |
| Jake McCabe | 35 | 21.3 % |
| Chris Tanev | 46 | 28 % |
| None of the Above | 27 | 16.5 % |
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