Last year the Toronto Maple Leafs continued their upward trajectory, but the season was somewhat disappointing.
On one hand, the Leafs proved that they were among the league’s best teams, but they failed again to make it out of the first round of the playoffs, and they didn’t improve on their previous seasons point totals despite adding John Tavares. (In fact they finished with five points less after 82 games).
On the other, the results often don’t paint the full picture, and if you account for lack and radom factors (shooting percentage, injuries, hold-outs, record in one goal games, power-play) the Toronto Maple Leafs were clearly a better a team with John Tavares than they were without him.