The Toronto Maple Leafs have a long wish-list this holiday season.
Although we won’t be able to watch any Toronto Maple Leafs games or celebrate with as many people as we typically would this holiday season, it’s an exciting time because the Leafs season is right around the corner. With a start date scheduled for mid-to-late January, let’s hope we’re watching games sooner than later.
Many fans have a Christmas wish-list that is filled with tickets, jerseys or merchandise and if they’re lucky, they usually get something. However, for the entire Toronto Maple Leafs organization it’s a little different.
For the first time since the NHL Lockout, teams won’t have to worry about traveling around the holiday season, but instead will be at home with their family. It may not be a huge celebration but the fact that they’ll get to spend that time with their loved ones, instead of flying to Columbus shortly after Christmas for a road-trip is probably a delightful moment for them.
So although the kids of these players will be asking for toys, what would the team be asking for?
Let’s look at every player’s wish list:
Toronto Maple Leafs Player’s Wish-List
Forwards
- Auston Matthews:
- Maurice “Rocket” Richard Trophy and Hart Trophy
- John Tavares
- No more hate mail from New York Islanders fans and some new pajamas
- Mitch Marner
- More goals
- William Nylander
- Hair product
- Alex Kerfoot
- To stop being compared to Nazem Kadri
- Zach Hyman
- Long-term extension with Toronto Maple Leafs
- Ilya Mikheyev
- Soup
- Wayne Simmonds
- A Gordie-Howe Hat-Trick
- Jimmy Vesey
- A spot on the first-line with Auston Matthews
- Pierre Engvall
- A giraffe stuffed animal
- Alexander Barabanov
- To make his NHL debut
- Nick Roberston
- To get taken off Toronto Maple Leafs prospect rankings
- Jason Spezza
- For people to stop making fun of his laugh
- Joe Thornton
- A Stanley Cup ring
- Travis Boyd
- To be talked about in conversations about making the Leafs roster because people forget he’s an option
- Jake Muzzin
- Morgan Rielly
- A Norris Trophy and a raise
- T.J. Brodie
- To never be compared to Tyson Barrie or Cody Ceci
- Justin Holl
- Some respect for the great season he just had.
- Zach Bogosian
- To pull a Patrick Maroon and win back-to-back Stanley Cups with two organizations
- Mikko Lehtonen
- To become a top-four NHL defenseman
- Rasmus Sandin
- To never step foot in Coca-Cola Coliseum again
- Travis Dermott
- Not to be living in Seattle next season
- Freddie Andersen
- To still be living with Auston Matthews next year
- Jack Campbell
- Become the Leafs starting goaltender
- Every Toronto Maple Leafs Fan
- A Stanley Cup Championship
Since 1967, every Toronto Maple Leafs fan has been asking Santa for the same thing: A Stanley Cup championship. Unfortunately the big man has yet to deliver.
Maybe this year it’ll come true, but I think a lump of coal is more likely.
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Goaltenders
Defense