Fansided · May 1, 2021
Toronto Maple Leafs: No Character or Leadership In Simmonds Fight
Wayne Simmonds, Toronto Maple Leafs (Photo by Claus Andersen/Getty Images)
The Toronto Maple Leafs are a great team with, hopefully, a great future, but what happened Thursday when they played the Vancouver Canucks was shameful.
On April 18th the Toronto Maple Leafs played the Canucks and Alex Edler stuck his knee out and injured Zach Hyman, who hasn’t played since.
This was an unfortunate accident, as I’d be willing to be almost every knee on knee hit is, but hockey is an emotional game, so if the Leafs wanted to fight Edler at the time, I wouldn’t have a problem with it. No one did, however, and since Edler was ejected from the game (and subsequently suspended) there was no fight.