I'm here to praise him.
I like his free agent signings. His mission was to improve the defense and he's done it.
I know you're frothing at the mouth to come in here and talk about term, but I just see this as a necessary way to compete with the other GMs.
Good: Domi, Tanev, OEL
OK: Woll and Stolarz
We'll see: Liljegren and Hakanpaa.
When you see the money and term players like Roy or Zadorov got, you can see why he went with CT, JK, and OEL.
I know Tre has a tendency to get most of his work done in the offseason. He's not done IMHO.
My grade: A-
He's improved the PK, and the PP. These were things that TOR desperately needed.
I'd like to see your grading as well.
Go Leafs Go
I agree with most of what you wrote, although I'd give him a B+ for now,If has his shit together and stays healthy then it goes to an A.
I think an important aspect that you missed is the coaching staff.
I think this is the strongest coaching Staff in 25 years, and I know that because I've watched this team since 2000-2001 I'm closing in on 25 years, I think that's why I'm so hard on goaltending because I got to see prime Cujo, and then Eddie, and then Raycroft came, and after about a month he made me sad, and then Toskala came and he made me even sadder.
Maybe Babcock was a slightly better head coach than Berube but Babcock never had the assistant coaches Berube does.
There was never a Stanley cup winning associate coach under Babcock, now there is.