Britishbulldog
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My dad and my grandparents moved to the East Coast around 1951 from Toronto. I was born in the late 60s after the last Leafs Cup but my grandparents, dad, uncles, cousins all cheered for the Leafs. For the 1st time in my life I am considering changing teams. My youngest son and his wife are having their 1st child this winter and this 11th grandchild of mine already has Leafs pjs and he isn't even born yet.
How could a team with unlimited resources and such fan support be so badly run. I don't get it.
I remember being on this site back in the Sundin era with Cornflake, Canada79, Couchman and then with MiracleGro and others and it was never this bad. The worst thing is I actually don't think I care about the Leafs anymore now because of how bad the management has been since last July 2018.
- Signing Tavares to the $11,000,000 contract when the Cap was only $79.5 which doubled his salary simply because San Jose, Edmonton and Buffalo were being morons with their money was sickening to a team that was not ready yet to breakout.
- The Feb 2019 giving Matthews $11,639,000 was ridiculous for a player who never won anything and not making it for 8 years was unforgiveable.
- The insane amounts handed out to non-champion players meant a 1st round pick had to be traded to unload the veteran MArleau. That 1st rounder ended up being RW/RS Seth Jarvis who currently leads Carolina with 19 goals in 33 games and has thrown 42 hits for $7.4 Mil until 2032
- Leafs then approved Marner's contract when he hadn't won a single playoff round.
And every GM makes mistakes but Dubas makes asinine trades that even casual fans were concerned with like Marchment for Denis Malgin, protecting AHL dman Justin Holl over recently acquired McCann simply because Holl shot right, trading future assets for subpar players at TDL (Treliving might have out done Dubas at the last TDL)...
Man I am tired of Leafs management more than any of the players...