Top 5 Maple Leafs departures that stung Toronto the most - Sportsnet.ca

Accurately identifying a promising talent in the draft, then parting ways with him too early is a trend you’ll see on this list. And it starts with a Kehoe, a 22nd-overall choice in whom Toronto should’ve invested a little patience.

Kehoe tore it up on some god-awful Penguins rosters, and — decades later — another Toronto-to-Pittsburgh sniper, Phil Kessel, would have his wicked shot compared to Kehoe’s. Between 1974-75 and 1982-83, Kehoe averaged 33 goals and 65 points. He never scored fewer than 29 goals or 50 points. Unbeknownst to the world, Khristich — a 70-point man twice over — had just about hit a wall and experienced a dramatic plummet in production, mustering a measly 39 points for Toronto over a season and a half before getting shipped to Washington and, not long after, Magnitogorsk.

Burrows provided something considerably less than a spark, recording 32 points and minus-14 rating in 151 games with Toronto. It was Rask standing between the Boston Bruins’ pipes when it was 4-1 Leafs in Game 7 of that 2013 playoff series. It was Rask outduelling Frederik Andersen in seven in 2018 and 2019. And it will likely be Rask — a Cup champion and three-time finalist, still in Vezina form — standing in front of the 2020 Maple Leafs if hockey is to resume and Toronto is somehow able to defeat the Lightning.

Giving up early on a future Hall of Famer and a man who would roundly be regarded as one of the best to ever don a mask is never a good look.

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MapleLeafs lukefoxjukebox Rask is a tough one but at the end of the day we really have no idea how he would have panned out as a Leaf. For one thing he would not have been playing behind as good a defence as he’s had in Boston all these years.

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