Morgan Rielly went there first. Brendan Shanahan doubled-down. The Toronto Maple Leafs are doing something the Original Six franchise hasn't dared in quite some time — talk about hoisting hockey's holy grail.
"Our goal will always be to win a Stanley Cup," Rielly, the team's current longest-serving player, said at the start of training camp."Anything short of that will be a failure."
"I would be more concerned if our players were coming in here and saying, 'Our goal is to get to the second round.'" "I've been put in this role and this situation because of who I am," said Matthews, a sniping centre with 69 goals last season, the most the NHL has seen in more than three decades. The 26-year-old, who has dealt with various injuries, has just 36 career NHL regular-season games under his belt to go along with seven playoff contests.
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