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Kyle Dubas feeling no added pressure as Toronto Maple Leafs get set to begin Phase 3 - TSN.ca
It all starts today.
First goal, making the Playoffs. Ultimate goal, 19 wins.
It all starts today.
First goal, making the Playoffs. Ultimate goal, 19 wins.
Less interesting to Dubas is the prospect of Toronto potentially making the playoffs for a fourth straight season and also earning the first-overall pick in this coming NHL draft. During the NHL’s lottery on June 26, the top selection was awarded to a “placeholder,” necessitating a second lottery that will be made up of the teams that lose in the qualifying round of this coming postseason tournament.
But that’s not the kind of consolation prize Dubas is gunning to win.
“If you lose, you get a 12.5 per cent chance of winning the first overall pick and all of those eight teams get the same chance,” Dubas said, ‘but to me the probability of losing and then winning the pick is still so low, relatively speaking, and it's so far away from where our franchise is at and what we're looking to do, that we don't really look at it that way. Our whole focus is on doing everything we can to get our team ready to try to win 19 games.”
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