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Name a former Leaf that people generally liked, but you hated.

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crump said:
Versteeg. Thought we were getting a plucky, secondary scorer. Turned out a selfish mouth guard chewer.
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patrick kanes brother who thinks hes patty kane but just a 3rd liner

Jason blake in his first season here was trash

then you have clarkson who was a plug and his trade was a top moment this decade
 
There are no hard feelings anymore but man, Reimer only got to play here because he was a good ole Canadian boy when in fact he's a career backup and not a good one at that
 
Bozak

Kerfoot

Tavares (don't hate, but my god this guy takes a lot of nights off)
 
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Tie Domi did some seriously dirty plays that could have ended some guys careers. It was a different era and people loved fighters so he seemed to get a pass. He also inexplicably seemed to lose his fighting spirit during a line brawl against the Flyers, causing some of our skill guys to get pummeled by their goons.
 
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Recently, I was never a Connor Brown fan. A dull player that works hard - seems like a nice person.

I was never high on Antropov or Stajan. I liked Reimer's heart but he was a pretty bad goaltender here.
 
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Johnsson and Kapanen recently. They got a lot of love around here but I found them very underwhelming most games.

In the past I guess I would say Tlusty. Going way back, I never liked Glen Healy.

When I was younger, I love Tie Domi but as I've gotten older, I can see how reckless he was.
 
Have to say Domi. Hated him when he was in Winnipeg, referred to him as a talentless goon. Liked to see him scrap in Toronto and it was nice for someone to have our guys back, but that Neidermayer elbow was pathetic. Not only dirty af, but cost us the series against NJ. Change my mind. Later on in his career when he stopped fighting so much and tried to play hockey he was terrible, a liability on the ice.
 
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None? Love em all. I root for any former players too.

If a player were to publicly trash the team or city, demand a trade, attempt to get out of his contract, etc, I might consider a dislike. They would likely be disliked by most everyone, so it wouldn't fit the OP's question either.
 
91LeafsTavares91 said:
Phil Kessel. Just everything about him from a hockey standpoint. The trade that brought him here. His lazy play on the ice. Toxic attitude on and off it. Was literally addition by subtraction the moment the Leafs traded him.
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613Leafer said:
Same.

I realize to an extent it's unfair - it's not Phil's fault that he was traded here, and it's not his fault that he was expected to be "the" guy here. But at the end of the day, we traded two unprotected 1sts, at a time when our #1 goalie options were Gustavsson/Toskala, our #1C was Stajan, and our #1D was Kaberle, plus we had bad depth. Cue the shocked Pikachu face by management when we finished near the bottom in those two years.

It was just such a terrible time to make a trade like that.And then what did we get in the trade? We mortgaged the future for a soft one-dimensional winger, who while very skilled, is not the type of player you build a franchise around. If I'm thinking of who I'd want to build a franchise around, it's a C, D, or G way ahead of a winger, unless it's an Ovechkin/Kucherov calibre winger.

There was also zero accountability, in that he was allowed to just coast defensively and never really fight for loose pucks for years, and just continue to get rewarded with top icetime, top PP time, big contract, etc. As the biggest name player on the team, and the one who eventually got the biggest contract on the team, he was a key guy young players would look up to, whether he liked it or not. So beyond the trade being terrible, I didn't think he was a good role model for our younger players, and I think our coaching/management didn't do anything to hold him accountable or try to set expectations for the team as a whole.

I think there are some rose coloured glasses where people look back fondly, and laugh about some of his jokes and interactions with the media, but it was a truly terrible stretch of time for the Leafs, and pretty much the entire time he was here I wanted the Leafs to hit reset on their terrible plan and just commit to a rebuild through the draft.
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Phil can't hear either of you two because he has his two Stanley Cup rings plugging his ears.
 
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