I could help but notice that by the time the Leafs got around to making their first pick in the Amateur draft on Saturday Montreal had already made 5 picks. So it's not hard to determine who will be better off in 3 years. The Leafs only have one of their first picks from the last 5 years in their organization. In addition, JFJ has dealt away many other picks during that same period for people like Jeff O'Neill, Yanic Perreault, Luke Richardson, Ron Francis, Brian Leetch, Andrew Raycroft and now you can add Vesa Toskala and Mark Bell.
Despite all these moves JFJ insists he wants to build through youth. So why isn't he? Well JFJ will continue to stray from his plan as long as he has no long term contract with the organization. As long as he feels he need to make the playoffs to keep his job then he will continue to sacrifice another piece of the Leaf's future to hang in for another year. So he can't afford to drop to the bottom of the standings like the Flyers did last season.
Since the Leafs keep bringing this guy back each year then just sign him to a multi-year contract and see what he can do. And if you have no confidence in him then why is he in the job for even one more day?
12 years ago
