Ignoring NMCs for fun

Rebuilding a team with UFAs is a mistake.

1. UFAs are either overpaid or get too many years...sometimes both, yikes !!!!

2. Building a team with other teams unwanted spare parts stinks of desperation and poor management.

3. One year's UFA crop can be full of garbage while the next summer could have a gem. Never leave fate to randomness.

Well said!

Leafs last summer didn't resign Kerfoot or Bunting and replaced them with Bert and Domi.

Now was it truly an upgrade or downgrade>?

Both actually. If Kerfoot would have played most of the second half with Matthews(he would have had more points like Domi). Issue is Leafs wanted more grit and got it with both Domi and Bertuzzi.

Now the issue is both signed one-year deals. Chances are one of them is going to resign one isn't. My bet is Domi resigns.

Hawks accept