Toronto Maple Leafs All-Time Special Teams Scoring Update

The Toronto Maple Leafs have not made a roster move in weeks.

Previously, like, sometime last century it feels like, the Toronto Maple Leafs signed Calle Jarnkrok to a very cheap four year deal.

Now, many people failed to understand this contract, and just ignorantly complained about the four year length, without realizing that , like Petr Mrazek last year, the Leafs don’t mind giving term when it lowers the annual cap-hit.

$2.1 is a lot for a role-player regardless, but Jarnkrok is worth at least twice that based on his numbers, and it will never be hard to get rid of a 15 goal/30 point, versatile, extremely strong defensive player like Jarnkrok.   His presence in any “bottom-six” signifies a very, very deep team.

Where was I? Oh yes, roster moves.  The Toronto Maple Leafs haven’t made one in a while, so I figured since I’d already written about the Leafs all-time goals, assists and points leaders, that it would be cool to do one on the franchises all-time special teams update.  (For those of you complaining about the Jarnkrok signing, “special teams” are the power-play and the penalty-kill).

All stats from quanthockey.com.

Toronto Maple Leafs Franchise Record Special Teams Scoring

The Toronto Maple Leafs all-time leader in Power-Play points is Mats Sundin with 333.  Sundin has a 30 point lead on Borje Salming in second place.

Tomas Kaberle (who should be in the hall of fame) is 3rd.   Mitch Marner is the leading active player and is ranked 14th all-time with 132 points.

Marner needs 201 points to go, and he has both Auston Matthews and Morgan Rielly on his heels.  He had just 25 PP points last year, even though he scored nearly 100 points, and based on that rate, he’ll need another eight years to catch Sundin.

Matthews and Rielly are currently ranked 18th and 19th, respectively.

Nylander is 24th and Tavares is 44th.   While those two will continue to climb the charts, it’s highly likely that Matthews, Marner and Rielly will all enter the top ten by the end of next season.

Mats Sundin is the leader in PP goals and in that category, Matthews ranks 7th and is about half-way to 1st.

As for the Penalty-Kill:

Dave Keon is the Toronto Maple Leafs all-time leader with 45 points on the PK.  He also leads with 31 short-handed goals.  Mikheyev’s five PK goals were the active leader, but since he’s gone Marner’s 4 career shorties have the active lead.

Marner’s 10 career short-handed points rank him 28th on the Leafs all-time list, but first for active players.

Bizarrely , Auston Matthews doesn’t have a short-handed goal or point in his entire career.  I realize he never gets on the PK, but you’d figure in six years he’d at least get one by accident.  I foresee many short-handed goals in his future, however.