If it’s another training camp in Leafland, of course Nick Robertson is scoring goals.
He scored one in Sunday’s pre-season-opening win in Ottawa . He scored one in the intrasquad scrimmage that preceded it. Last year, he scored five in four pre-season games to lead the team. Scoring is one of Robertson’s two specialties.
His other? Contract years. This will be his third straight.
Which is only a little odd because it’s been more than six years since the Maple Leafs drafted Robertson in the second round. And you’d think over that time the team might have come to a decision on their feelings for the 24-year-old winger from California.
On one level, it doesn’t seem that complicated. Robertson’s strengths and weaknesses are pretty well defined. He is gifted with the rarest of skil