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

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justashadowof said:
That's a bit harsh. If anything, he didn't play soft enough to protect himself. He was too brave.
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I recall he took alot of abuse and punishment and never backed down, always got right back up. If the current leafs possessed his fearlessness /(reckless abandon), they'd be All World.

Some other guys i want to add to the list...
Brian Boyle...i don't dislike him, per se, just didn't see what all the fuss was about.
Michael Peca
Sergei Berezin, he did produce due to volume shooting, but always regarded him as a tunnel vision, selfish player.

Didn't like Owen Nolan when we picked him up back then, but him and Gary Roberts would be nice on this team.
 
supermann_98 said:
Cujo, for never being able to win a big game, getting outplayed by Arturs freakin Irbe as an example ... and then leaving via free agency which in hindsight was great because Belfour who replaced him was miles more consistent and stable in net.
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60 games over his 4 year Leaf playoff career. He was very very good in the playoffs
 
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Must agree with some others that I didn't hate these players. I definitely didn't enjoy their tenure as Leafs or what they brought to the team vs their expectations.

Al Secord
Mike Craig
Colby Armstrong
Toskola, Sparks (Although he did almost single handedly secure us Matthews) and might throw Hutch in there after last season
RAYCROFT
Clarkson
Holland
Vesey gaining momentum
Marincin
and my least fav GOAT

And even though I wasn't asked I will add the man who thinks he invented hockey...just ask him
RON WILSON
 
deltamachine said:
We had a string of good goalies for a time back then: Potvin, Cujo, Belfour (that series against Ottawa). They gave us some great years.
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absolutely true. Leafs were very bad for many years previous to acquiring these goalies.
Makes one think, acquire a top 4 goalie at whatever cost and build around him...worked back then
 
Andreas Johnsson. Was so overrated by our fan base 2 seasons ago. He always got bumped off the puck because he was so weak, and then took alot of I'll timed penalties for retaliation or hooking or something dumb.

Always hated Robert Reichel too. That slap shot on his penalty that flew over the net just sealed the deal on that. He was a talented, but dumb hockey player.
 
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Macallan18 said:
going back a bit in time, Jamie Macoun.
In the old Gardens, after a bad goal against the leafs, he fired the puck into the crowd.
Hit the guy behind me in the nose, bounced and hit me in the back.
Guy had a broken nose, they packed it, and sent him back to his seat with a free beer.
Always hated Macoun's play, forget about his stupidity.
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Oh hell yes. I used to get unnecessarily angry at him just for icing the puck. I was not a good Leafs fan back then.
 
Jamie Macoun was hard nosed, dirty and unsympathetic. I kind of liked that about him. But yes, he thought nothing of firing a puck eye level into the bench or the first few rows of spectators to get a play stoppage. He was also punishing with his stick.

The Brian Glennie story is interesting (if not wholly unsubstantiated). The opposition really hated him. He would low bridge (hip check) forwards in full stride in a way that Bryan Marchment also did throughout his career. I believe that it was a throwback check even in the 1970's because there was an understanding among the player fraternity that it could be a career ender. Visually these checks are spectacular and were fan favourites. I don't even think these checks are actually that difficult to time or dangerous to the player throwing the hit. So it's less about the skill of throwing these checks that limits their usage than the stigma of crossing that line with the opposition.
 
James Reimer. I understand he had some good stretches. But the bad stretches were unbelievably bad. I felt like I've never seen a goalie panic more often. I think a small market is best for his player profile
 
KuleminFan41 said:
I'm late to respond, but Irbe and the Canes defeated the Stanley Cup finalists New Jersey Devils in round 1 of that years playoffs and reached the finals. I mean, its a bit unfair to blame Cujo there lol . Though I'll always be disappointed in him leaving looking for an "easy cup" with Detroit. If we're being honest, Belfour wasn't much better, if at all. Seeing as he only got out of the 1st round once, while Cujo never lost in the first round with the Leafs and reached 2 conference finals
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Wasn't even entirely that. Pat Quinn benched him after a rough game vs Sweden in the Olympics that year and CuJo basically hated Pat after that, their relationship had completely deteriorated. That was a large part of the reason I held a grudge against him for a while - it was astounding to me that he was unable to let that go. That said, he ended up basically committing career suicide going to Detroit, so I kinda got over it fairly quickly. If Detroit won cups with him, much harder pill to swallow.

Honestly, if anyone ever starts touting a Leaf exec or coach to coach at the Olympics, I'm just going to point to what happened with CuJo or Marty St Louis and say "OH HELL NO, STAY FAR FAR AWAY".
 
Never liked Domi. Never liked Steen or Stajan. Never liked Toskala, even when he first arrived and looked like a hero.
 
Paul Ranger. When he came back to the hockey, signed by the Leafs, everyone on this board was in love with the guy but I couldn’t f***ing stand listening to him.
 
Lightsol said:
Carl Gunnarsson. The way people talked about him, you'd think he was a perennial Norris contender on the Leafs...
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He made Phaneuf look competent, which is impressive in itself. Boring but solid defensively, which ain't winning no Norris.
 
Didn't like either Kessel or Phaneuf, but I understand that they were both misvalued and misused, so Burke.
 
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