Why Maple Leafs’ William Nylander should be an easy A

For William Nylander, it was a double whammy of a bummer.

First that inconceivably stinky Game 7 playoff loss to the Florida Panthers and, almost immediately thereafter, swapping out his Maple Leafs jersey for the Tre Kronor and a drubbing by the U.S. in the semifinal of the world championship.

“The playoffs were more disappointing. That was a tough one.’’

Usually of a perennially insouciant nature, a downcast Nylander spent much of the summer scraping that s—t right off his shoes (as the Rolling Stones put it) by tramping around Europe: “France, Italy, Ireland, Switzerland. It was good for me.’’

And here we are again, as the calendar turns on another training camp, preparing for his 11th season as a Leaf. Hockey

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