But the Leafs are trying, and that process began with the addition of Toronto-raised forwards Michael Bunting and Kurtis Gabriel. “I know what I bring, and that’s unrelenting passion,” Gabriel said during Thursday’s Zoom call to introduce the new Leafs. “I had multiple teams reach out to me on free agency day, and some of the offers were higher than Toronto’s offer,” Bunting said. When I play my best, I’m under the other team’s skin and I’m getting in their faces. Gabriel and Bunting join veteran forward Wayne Simmonds to give the Leafs perhaps even more of an edge in that area than with Hyman and Bogosian.

Source: thestar July 30, 2021 00:00 UTC