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Grading Each Toronto Maple Leafs Season From the Last Decade

By Joseph Zita

TORONTO, ON - JANUARY 12: Toronto Maple Leafs logo pictured at centre ice at the Scotiabank Arena on January 12, 2019 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Photo by Mark Blinch/NHLI via Getty Images)
TORONTO, ON - JANUARY 12: Toronto Maple Leafs logo pictured at centre ice at the Scotiabank Arena on January 12, 2019 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Photo by Mark Blinch/NHLI via Getty Images) /
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Toronto Maple Leafs 2011-12 Season

Record: 35-37-10 – 80 points (Finished 4th in the North

east Division and 13th in the Eastern Conference)

Grade: C-

Review: In the 2011-12 season the Toronto Maple Leafs still had a number of young players on their roster, the likes of Phil Kessel, Nazem Kadri, Luke Schenn, Cody Franson, Matt Frattin, and they also played newly acquired Jake Gardiner 75 games that year. He was traded alongside Lupul to the Toronto Maple Leafs  for Francois Beauchemin.

The Toronto Maple Leafs saw Kessel hit 82 points on the season in 82 games in just his third season with the team (second full 82 game season) as well as Jake Gardiner , who hit 30 points in his rookie year and continued to have a great career with the Toronto Maple Leafs.

On the other hand the Toronto Maple Leafs  started the season well and slowly drop below .500 by January.

The team did just said and head coach Ron Wilson eventually got fired and he got replaced by Randy Carlyle with only 18 games left on the season.

The reason this season gets a C-, is because the drop in points from the year before (85 to 80) the firing of the coach is a big one too obviously, showing that the team was not going in the right direction with some of the key pieces that they had. (Stats from hockey-reference.com)

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