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I like Dudley to finish the season then go with Eakins next yr. New breed of thinking of the game. Randy won with a lineup of brute force and amazing talent. Look at their d with pronger, nieds. No way does that represent success with toronto.

With all of the young potential talent that the Leafs have brought in, I think that they will be better next yr but I must be a sucker as I've thought this over the past 2-3 seasons. Burke didn't evolve with the game when he tried to assemble his original team with truculence, and wasted 2...

Phaneuf atoi is at 25:21, the next highest is Gunnar at 22:01... obviously when he plays 9 more minutes a night than Franson, Schenn, Komi, he makes a higher number of mistakes ESPECIALLY since he is the main QB on defense after Liles (Gardiner is being groomed for this now as well). He does...

I like playing Chicago right now, we look good

It would be a tremendous achievement to finish top 10 in scoring if lupul stuck it out. Sundin only did it twice in his career.

Apparently there was a 1st rounder on the table for Mac, might've been a nice asset. We were spoiled having 2 of the top 5 scorers in the nhl, that won't happen again. We sorely lack consider secondary scoring from the other lines. We lack a 1C, 1-2 2nd line scorers, a strong center on the 3rd...

Wow loads of posts about Wilson getting fired now...no chance it'll happen before the end of the season, it's too close. Burke will do it in the offseason and blame the media, say that Wilson is a fantastic coach but didn't get a fair shake.

Eakins could gain experience in tactical play and matchups in the playoffs. He has obviously developed a solid system with the Marlies, helping them sit comfortably in the division lead with the #2 best GA and #1 PK. I don't think he has time to change the Leafs' mistakes against all these...

If the Leafs finished 7th or 8th, they would've been run out of the rink by the Rags or Bruins. It wouldn't have helped any. I hope, like in other years before they're unnecessary tear, that they keep crashing to end the Wilson-era and garner a high end pick. I think Lupul is hurting worse than...

That's the way to hit rock bottom. The flyers finished with 56 pts, accepted a porous yr, and came back the next season with 95 pts and a final 4 appearance. I think it's too late to fire Wilson as well, Eakins will def be the next coach.

Wow you were 30 last time they made it. It was a great year, franchise recording 103 points, beat the evil Sens in the 1st for the 4th time 5 yrs, and played a tough series against the Phily- game 6 ot bone crushing hit on Kapanen by Tucker, who crawls to the bench to let on Roenick for the...

Concurred junction. Sure it's not fun to get the goaltending needed to fearlessly play the run n gun style, but the leafs simply get outplayed so badly for long stretches that I can't blame the net, but the system. I'm as sick of Wilson as i was of JFJ during his horrific time here in Toronto.

I've been an avid leafs fan forever, but after hearing Burke and Wilson blame the td for their poor performance and watching the unorganized play over the past 9 games, I sort of agree. It hurts caring this squad, and maybe finding comedy in it (like in any disease) is the only solution for some...

That's definitely true. But, it also creates HUGE pressure on the squad to perform now if the TD pressure was the reason they have faltered. The Leafs are 5 points behind FLA who also has one game in hand, if they lose tonite they won't be catching the Panthers and that leaves them needing to...

Lol Weber and Suter were the only ones holding him back from icetime, and otherwise he would play a ton? Why doesn't he in TO? He started the yr as a healthy stratch, averages 16 min/night, and has only played a regular shift on D of 20 min TWICE this season. He averages the same minutes as...

Well, Aulie will have a solid shot at making the TB defense squad to stick, I imagine he would rather make nhl money in TB than mainly play on the Marlies. Good luck to him. I haven't seen Ashton but I guess it's another guy that may give some truculence on the 3rd/4th lines in the future.

Oh jeez. I remember him saying it wasn't the amt per yr but the length...purely speculating I bet he offered a 4 -5 deal and Grabo wanted 6-7. He is probably worth 5 mil next yr, but he plays a pretty physical game. It would suck if he had bad knees and lost his speed, and still got paid 5 mil...

I imagine Burke feels very strongly that he will sign. Why go to the unknown for the Belarusian? His time in to I think has been positive after Mtl, and he has a small fam with a to girl. I doubt that Grabo will be like McCabe before he became a Ufa, or that Burke would panick like JFJ did...

Yeah the front office has done a good job through trades getting some decent prospects that other teams may have undervalued- Gardiner, Aulie, Colborne, etc. If they do go the trade route I'd much prefer to use their high budget front office to pick off these guys who may develop in the next few...

I think the value would be in having more assets to move in a trade tomorrow or on draft day than the draft pick in itself. they are very weak up the middle as it is so losing Grabovski really hurts...unless they can parlay that cap space and assets gained to get a legit centre to replace him...