Toronto Maple Leafs Headline November Canadian Team Power Rankings
By James Tanner
Canada’s Worst Team
With apologies to hopefully future Toronto Maple Leafs 3rd line centre Bo Horvat, his current team stinks.
Yes, it’s true, they are ahead of the Senators in the standings.
Unfortunately for Vancouver, however, the Senators are victims of bad luck, and their roster is on the way up.
The Canucks are victims of bad thinking.
They fired Jim Benning, which was smart.
Unfortunately, they stuck with Jim Rutherford, which was dumb.
What the Canucks were thinking when they decided to replace one guy who doesn’t understand how to build an NHL team in today’s environment with another is anyone’s guess.
Mine would be that they don’t understand that hockey is a star driven league, and that they credited the Penguins two most recent Cups to Rutherford, instead of understanding that the Penguins won those Cups in spite of him.
The Canucks are a mess.
They need a full rebuild and should be looking to unload anyone and everything that they can. They are only two points up the Senators (not counting their game in hand) and yet, they are years and years behind them.