We’ve been in the post-Tomas Plekanec era about a month, as he was the only major acquisition of the trade deadline, while Eric Fehr and Nikita Soshnikov were both on the way out. So we asked our staff: based on the team’s performance since the trade deadline, is there anything you would change in hindsight?

I would have gone back to the early afternoon of February 23rd and slashed Cal Clutterbuck’s tires, rendering him unable to participate in the Islanders’ game in Toronto that night. Auston’s shoulder would thank me.

I would’ve called up Andreas Johnsson sooner.

This team needs defense help, and the Leafs brass chose not to seal a deal to help in that aspect before the deadline. The right side of Toronto’s D has been especially porous, and with names like Mike Green out in the trade bait lists but never moving, surely the prices set by teams were higher than what was reasonable. Realistically, the impact name that the Leafs need was not out there for a price they could stomach, and I think that’s okay to not pull the trigger on that.

I would of traded JVR because my model suggests that the leafs have a marginally better chance to win in 2021 than they do now and the middling prospects they woulda drafted with the pick they got for him is cheap and good.

I’d put Tomas Plekanec in the top-six, just to see what he can do.