SIMMONS SAYS: Why can't Maple Leafs be more like Leon Draisaitl?

Leon Draisaitl is a playoff monster the likes of which hockey has rarely seen before. The past three seasons, he's played 35 playoff games for the forever-questioned Edmonton Oilers — some of them while nursing an injury of some kind. Draisaitl is paid $8.5 million a year by the Oilers, $2.5 million less than the Maple Leafs pay John Tavares, $2.4 million less than they pay Mitch Marner, $3 million less than they will pay William Nylander next season. In the past 35 playoff games, when Draisaitl was scoring 66 points playing with or without Connor McDavid, Matthews wound up with 35 for the Leafs in the same number of games, Marner scored 33, Nylander 32 and captain Tavares 24.