2025-26 Toronto Maple Leafs General Discussion
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It is not all encompassing. Young players get hurt too - they just tend to get hurt less frequently due to less wear.
An older team might have a Tanev-Stolarz pair while a younger team would be less likely to have as many age-wear related injuries and so not as many injured. Recovery time for older players is also longer. But of the 3 skaters you mention, Carlo has the least number of NHL games played at 657 which is in the top 16% all time for regular season NHL games played - so those three have had a lot of NHL wear.
Guilt Trip
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He's got a hatty tonight
4EVRLEAFAN
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Man what a season so far 51 points and still out, 51 points this time last year is 3rd in the Atlantic, Florida the defending champs only had 53 points this time last year, only when we get off to a rough start does the east become so competitive. 
herman
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Relatively small sample size compared to the first half of the season’s parade of bad, but it looks like the late November road trip and then Christmas party/New Year break helped the team turn the corner on chemistry and confidence. Also getting healthy bodies back of course.
It is hard to overstate my satisfaction that following this tumultuous offseason, we are now seeing pretty much everyone on the team driving play within their roles, and some depth guys elevating their games to fill out special teams niches effectively, and just the general vibe of sticking up for each other on the ice and taking the piss out of each other off the ice.
It is hard to overstate my satisfaction that following this tumultuous offseason, we are now seeing pretty much everyone on the team driving play within their roles, and some depth guys elevating their games to fill out special teams niches effectively, and just the general vibe of sticking up for each other on the ice and taking the piss out of each other off the ice.