Am I discounting that fact? When did I? I'm well aware of that. Also, Rantanen was their top scoring forward in their cup run... now he's gone.
Leafs do need to be more aggressive. Not sure doing what the Avs did would help the Leafs this season though. The time to make big changes was the last few off-seasons but even with a new GM the motto is the same. We can't even make a simple off-season trade.
I'm with all of you about cap allocation and making changes. I'm not sure I understand why people would want to essentially give away Marner at this point of the season. We might as well just take a shot at the cup with our best players... if it falters again, then we can only hope they finally do something, for better or worse.