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Forum: Toronto Maple LeafsAug. 13, 2020 at 5:30 p.m.
Thread: Travis Dermott VS Justin Holl
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>leafs101</b></div><div>I don't get it. Unless we have to trade him to make room for the perfect fit D, Dermott is everything we could ask for. Decision making is just okay, but that comes with experience and with playing with a guy like Muzz at such a young age. Plays with speed, offensive ability, heart, and grit in the D zone. Has all of the tools to be a top 4 stud with a little bit more experience and learning from a guy like Muzzin. I think it should go:

Rielly (5M) - Shutdown D (3.5M) (trade or UFA)
Muzz (5.6M) - Dermott (1.2M)
Sandin (874k) - Vet D (2M) (UFA)</div></div>

So Lehtonen is not given a chance at all then? Also if You are spending 2 million on a bottom pair d, why not just have Holl there. Anyone who says he was terrible in the playoffs is just not paying attention. Sure he isn't Muzzin and he certainly isn't anywhere near Rielly but he was miles better than Ceci and I would say better than Barrie by a wide margin. Dermott I think has a lot more growing to do but he is just 23 so give him time. People are too consumed on here about getting a Norris calibre right handed defenceman. That isn't needed, they need two good two way guys who can make smart pinches (which the TO system puts a premium on) and can defend in their own zone. Limit rebounds sort of thing. People tend to freak out when a team gets a cycle going and pass it around the outside a bunch but that also is the Keefe defensive scheme. Cutting down odd man rushes is the most critical thing this needs to do but I will say, that has as much to do with the forwards as it does the defence. When a defenceman pinches, he needs to make sure the high forward is high enough to cover and the high forward needs to be responsible when the defenceman pinches and way too often the forwards are not doing that. Watch back and you'll see that Matthews almost never made that mistake, the defence pinches and if he was the high forward he was in position. Kapanen, constantly drops lower and then gets burned. Robertson got burned several times as well. It isn't all on the defencemen.