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2021 Toronto Maple Leafs Regular Season Forward Grades

By James Tanner

TORONTO, ON - MARCH 29: Auston Matthews #34 of the Toronto Maple Leafs gets set to jump onto the ice against the Edmonton Oilers during an NHL game at Scotiabank Arena on March 29, 2021 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Oilers defeated the Maple Leafs 3-2 in overtime. (Photo by Claus Andersen/Getty Images)
TORONTO, ON - MARCH 29: Auston Matthews #34 of the Toronto Maple Leafs gets set to jump onto the ice against the Edmonton Oilers during an NHL game at Scotiabank Arena on March 29, 2021 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The Oilers defeated the Maple Leafs 3-2 in overtime. (Photo by Claus Andersen/Getty Images) /
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Alexander Kerfoot, Toronto Maple Leafs
Alexander Kerfoot, Toronto Maple Leafs (Credit: John E. Sokolowski-USA TODAY Sports) /

Alex Kerfoot

A versatile Forward who added being a decent penalty killer to his portfolio this season, Alex Kerfoot continues to be a solid member of the team, even if he always has the shadow of Nazem Kadri hanging over him.

The Leafs acquired Kerfoot because he was coming off a season where he was the NHL’s best defensive forward, but he hasn’t lived up to that in T.O.

This year his defense was just average and he didn’t score much at all, though part of that falls at the feet of Ilya Mikheyev.  Still, I’d have to say for the cost of him in a studs and duds cap system, he was a disappointment this season, even if he was good in the playoffs.

8 goals, 23 points and middling defense……..that’s a bad recipe and nothing you couldn’t have gotten out of Kenny Agostino for a quarter of the cost.  Kerfoot spent parts of the year on the fourth line and at times seemed to lose his job to Pierre Engvall.

I love the player, I love the thinking behind the trade that brought him here, but I gotta give him a bad grade for this season, likely his last in Toronto.

D. . C/W. . ALEX KERFOOT

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