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Originally Posted by BE-LEAF-ABLE
As a fan of this team however, I have to say that this team doesn't always try to be productive... or at least, not until recently has it seemed that it's come to mind. It's success is making the playoffs. They never want to make the moves to push the team over the top, and they continually "improve" the team with patch-up jobs.
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You're talking like this is still the post-cap era. Many teams are being forced to make patch-up jobs, and sometimes it pans out. What moves could the Leafs have made to push the team over the top this offseason? I really don't see it, and I think they did the best that they could with the resources that they have. Bringing in Toskala, Bell, and Blake were good decisions, and filled some holes that the Leafs have. There are plenty of other teams with worse defense than what the Leafs have, they just need to learn how to play as a unit.
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It's even worse when most of the fans of this team trust in every move it makes. It fails to waive or drop its garbage players as it knows they'll garner a large fanbase, and it does little to nothing during the off-season except hand out pay-raises and no-trade clauses to overrated players.
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We're talking to different fans and watching different TV stations, because all I hear and see is criticism for the Leafs.
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As for waiting forthe 25-30 games mark... What we're seeing now isn't a shock. It was quite clear before the season even began: This isn't a good team. They made little to no change to the team that didn't do squat last year, yet they have people expecting different results.
Until Gamache was playing, every player except for Jason Blake was in the line-up on last year's non-playoff team.
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A team that would have done better if there were not extended injury problems for Wellwood, Carlo, Tucker, and Peca. I don't really see how it is fair to say that the Leafs were wrong in deciding that if those players can remain healthy it'd be possible to be in the middle of the playoff pack.
And what are you talking about little to no change? They brought in 3 players than can make an impact on the team in Toskala, Bell, and Blake, and let go an aging player in Peca who was injured for most of the season, and they hopefully have Wellwood, Tucker and Antropov healthier than they were last year. I do think that this should be a playoff bound team, they just need a little time before fans start writing them off already. I mean, you barely missed the playoffs last year, and made improvements to the roster, and other teams got worse.
Just give it time. Again, if at the 25-30 game mark this team is far below 500, then start your whining.