Agreed, but I think there is reason for hope. For one, a Maple Leaf executive (Dubas) actually said that the team needed to be rebuilt. This is the first time we have heard the team talk openly about this.
Also their actions seem to point to them actually taking this route, so they aren't just paying lip service to the fans.
They have to stay the course, and that will be tough. They can't try and speed up the process, they have to see it through. If they do this the right way then when we come out on the other side we will hopefully have a team that we can cheer for.
I look at the Leafs situation similar to that of the Hawks when they tried to build around Kyle Calder, Mark Bell, Steve Sullivan, Eric Daze and the like. Didn't work. They had to strip it down and draft the likes of Seabrook, Kane, Keith, and Toews.
Lets hope that the Leafs can do the same and that some of the players they have now like Leivo, Brown, Nylander, Percy, Finn can enhance some elite talent that the will hopefully draft over the next couple of years.
