The Toronto Maple Leafs are faced with a wonderful problem – they have too many good defenseman.
The Toronto Maple Leafs have three underrated star defenseman – Rielly, Muzzin and Brodie – who play every single game. After that, they have a four man rotation of Justin Holl, Travis Dermott, Rasmus Sandin and Timothy Liljegren.
Every one of those four players is a capable top-four defenseman in the NHL. That might sound like high praise, but in a cap world not every team has a good #4. And in a cap-world, you just can’t afford to carry a seventh defenseman who makes above the league minimum.