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Re-Signing Unfairly Maligned Defenseman Should be Toronto Maple Leafs Top Priority

MONTREAL, QC - OCTOBER 26: Toronto Maple Leafs defenceman Tyson Barrie (94) traks the play during the Toronto Maple Leafs versus the Montreal Canadiens game on October 26, 2019, at Bell Centre in Montreal, QC (Photo by David Kirouac/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

The Toronto Maple Leafs fans have a history of ganging up on players that, as a group, they’ve decided to not like.

Larry Murphy and Jake Gardiner are two of the most famous (and embarrassing) examples of mob-think in Toronto Maple Leafs history, something that pretty much every team in every sport’s fans are guilty of at one time or an other.