Toronto Maple Leafs Need to Be Extremely Careful With Clifford Extension

The Toronto Maple Leafs are interested in bringing back Kyle Clifford on a contract extension.

Kyle Clifford, of course, is interested in returning to the Toronto Maple Leafs.

This according to TSN.

But if the Leafs are going to do this, they’ve got to be extremely careful.

Toronto Maple Leafs and Kyle Clifford

Since the Leafs traded for Kyle Clifford, he’s became a favorite for fans of the team concerned with their lack of physical play.

His numbers are well below 50% across the board, and he’s taken some bad penalties, so he hasn’t exactly helped his new team all that much.

This is, however, an extremely small sample size. Given Clifford’s career history, I think it’s worth assuming he’ll be –…