Leafs before Lou

My eyes! This team sucks so bad.

The forward core is fine besides the missing proper true 3c, its the Dcore beside Rielly that is holding them back and should have been the priority fixing. But in general lets say Matthews came in and Lou never signed Marleau the forward core of

JVR-Bozak-Marner
Hyman-Matthews-Nylander
Brown-Kadri-Kapenan
Panik-Komorov-Levio

really wouldnt have been that bad

I said it before, I don't think Lou expected the Marleau contract would haunt the Leafs like it did, at the time of signing it, I'm sure no one would have predicted all 5 young guns (Matthews, Marner, Nylander, Kapanen, Johnson) would command nearly 40 million. Of course Dubas didn't help the situation by giving another superstar (J.T.) 11 million before the Marleau contract was off the books and the young guns were locked up.

Well Lou did come in after the paranoid and useless Ferguson and the sauced brained Burke were GMs

Yes, Lou was way better than those 2.