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One of two things is going to happen here.
Either we’ll keep these written prophecies as receipts and flaunt them next winter as evidence of our supreme clairvoyance.
Or you’ll screengrab them and launch them right back in our face when the Toronto Maple Leafs stand pat at the trade deadline, crumble in the playoffs and lose Jack Campbell in free agency to the Detroit Red Wings or Colorado Avalanche.
Without further ado, here are our three bold predictions for the boys in blue in 2022 (plus a few more).
Toronto finds a way to keep Campbell
No NHL city loves its contract debates and cap-structure chatter more than Toronto, with its unorthodox book balancing leaning so heavily toward elite forwards.