A Third Toronto Maple Leafs Players Wins a Best Defenseman Award

KOSICE, SLOVAKIA - MAY 23: Mikko Lehtonen #4 of Finland controls the puck during the 2019 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Slovakia quarter final game between Finland and Sweden at Steel Arena on May 23, 2019 in Kosice, Slovakia. (Photo by Lukasz Laskowski/PressFocus/MB Media/Getty Images)

The Toronto Maple Leafs blue-line takes a lot of heat.

In my opinion, all of the heat the Toronto Maple Leafs blue-line is unfair.

They made significant statistical improvements under Sheldon Keefe, they play a high risk offensive game that occasionally leads to ugly looking goals against, and they don’t really do the traditional things we have been told throughout our entire lives that make players good…