If he let any of those 4 players leave he would have A.) lost the trade and B.) been crucified by the fanbase. He bet on oodles of high-end skill being the winning strat of the future, but clearly heavy play and shutdown defense still have a role. The bright side is everyone wants high-end skill because it’s so rare so it should be easy to find players to fill lesser roles. Again, Dubas has at least two years before he should feel any sort of pressure to keep his job. GMs generally have a longer tenure than coaches, and for good reason, full overhaul changes to the team identity take time. Let the man breathe and think, he’s good at that

Kadri is the only trade you can really say was bad. And that is only in hindsight. Barrie was considered a pretty good player at the time and just didn't pan out in TO. Many like to say losing a 1st to move Marleau was really bad but it was him or Marner and that was Lou's doing. The poster here is a well known Leaf troll. A complete idiot of great renown. Anyone who thinks Lou has any clue what he is doing should just look at the utter disaster he has unleashed in the Islanders Cap. What would Lou have done if he was given another year in TO? Traded Nylander for some 30 year old soon to be declining cement footed stay at home defenceman, he would have driven Matthews out of town and replaced him with Leo and Brassard and then would have signed Pavelski to a 5 year 8 million dollar contract to teach the youth we no longer have. Lou is ****ing terrible.

Yes: the spoiled, immature, disrespectful kids don't listen to Babsy, so they bring in a rookie coach, who the Leafs can walk all over. Smart move. Where's Mark and Dale Hunter. Dale Hunter would have whipped those brats into a Cup contenders by now. Keefe still has to change their diapers and caddy J.T.'s golf bag every spring.

Why don’t you bring up something that he’s actually done other than handing Tuukka to boston. I would tend to give chiarelli the credit for that, but whatever it can go to JFJ.

Edit: I’ll give him credit for Kuraly too. Apparently he was the guy pushing for him in that trade.

I agree with this. The leafs have a lot of talent, but many of them lack that killer instinct and they fold in crucial games.

Lou was a great GM... in New Jersey. He wasn’t the answer with us. Having said that Doofus needed to go yesterday