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David Clarkson May Become The Next Larry Murphy In Toronto

12/17/2013 at 11:50am EST

from Kevin McGran of the Toronto Star,

We’re starting to wonder whether David Clarkson is destined to get the Larry Murphy treatment.

This town can be tough on its so-called saviours, which Clarkson is starting to see first-hand.

It begins like this: A player who is great somewhere else comes to the Leafs as the missing piece of the puzzle. He gets off to a slow start. The team under-performs. He's blamed. Cutting bait, the GM panics, sends the star player elsewhere for far less than market value. He becomes a star again.

In case you’ve forgotten about Murphy’s case, the Scarborough native's time with the Leafs was the only lull of his Stanley Cup-filled career. In 1995, the Leafs gave up Dmitri Mironov and a second-round pick to Pittsburgh for Murphy, a Canada Cup hero. He was booed mercilessly by the crowds at Maple Leaf Gardens.

continued plus more Leafs notes...

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