The Matt Murray trade was doomed to poor reviews from the very beginning. For starters, Matt Murray has been injury prone and struggled since his final year in Pittsburgh leading to some truly unfortunate time in Ottawa, especially if you primarily looking at his save percentage as the best measure of success for him. Until word of Murray to Toronto became a thing and there was a need to justify his numbers, there probably weren’t too many Leafs fans that viewed Matt as their first choice for manning the net this season. It gets more complicated when the return and retention offered to Buffalo at the draft exceeds what Toronto received. The Leafs don’t have a bargain goaltender, no matter who your guy was, Murray isn’t it, and it all feels very reactionary to a goaltending market that has caved in over the past couple of days. You don’t need to like it, but the good news is that if healthy, Matt Murray seemingly offers a lot more than Jack Campbell did.
About a month ago I compared some numbers of rumoured Leafs targets to their incumbent goaltenders. Matt Murray fared pretty well…

GOALS SAVED ABOVE EXPECTED/60
ERIC COMRIE
0.603
2ND
DARCY KUEMPER
0.387
7TH
VILLE HUSSO
0.346
8TH
MATT MURRAY
0.163
18TH
SCOTT WEDGEWOOD
0.046
27TH
BRADEN HOLTBY
0.032
29TH
JACK …

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Author: Jon Steitzer / The Leafs Nation