[oldeguy]

OAC_Sparky,Jan 25 2008, 08:45 AM Wrote:

crazikev,Jan 24 2008, 04:49 PM Wrote:They should get rid of a lot of crap, tank the season get a really high draft pick for a couple years in a row, then  bam stanley cup!  The current strategy of picking all these free agents isn't working and it hasn't worked for a long time for us.
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Young draft picks with no leadership gets you nowhere.

Look at the recent Stanley Cup winners; Wings, Avs, Stars; and even the latest winners -- leadership.

Toronto needs some youth, yes. But it needs some decent scouting even more. Detroit never gets a first draft pick; it's been on top too long.

Look who we have -- Datsyuk, Zetterberg.... Not first rounders. Just good scouting. And neither Lidstrom nor Chelios are spring chickens -- but they are leaders.
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Leafs need to spend more money...................on management, to get people who know how to build a team.
They don't have any real draft picks, thanks to the previous GM.
I read somewhere that Ferguson, to his credit, wanted to "blow it up" to get the good picks, but he wasn't allowed to.
The Leafs are, unfortunately a money maker, even if the team sucks, the corporation makes a profit, and since the salary cap has been in place, it's been even easier.