The True All-Decade Leafs (of my heart)

Photo by Travis Golby/NHLI via Getty ImagesSo The Athletic has been writing enough “X of the past decade” pieces to actually fill an entire decade. One they did was Mirtle looking at the Toronto Maple Leafs “roster of the decade”.

I wanted to do it a different way. He looked purely at the idea of the best players who were Leafs, I want to go on a line-by-line and pair by pair basis that takes us through that era.

God damn I loved this line. In 2010/11 Clarke MacArthur had 62 points, Mikhail Grabovski was just shy of 60 points and 30 goals, and Nikolai Kulemin did hit the 30 goal mark. They finished 2nd, 3rd and 4th in team scoring (Kessel was just ahead with 64 points) and were the Leafs’…