If Kadri is traded this will go against everything the fan base and management swore they would never support and repeat from past days. Giving up on prospects for older guys that will only come in and perform for a couple of years is not the way to go. Kadri has done everything that has been asked, was the best player in the 09 training camp but was sent down and crushed, asked to go to juniors and dominate, did that. Asked to make the world junior team and be among their best forwards, he started out as the 13th forward and found his way on the top line and won silver and put up 8 points in 6 games being the third best forward after Taylor Hall and Jordan Eberle. Went deep into the playoffs in junior. Asked to get stronger and put on weight, which hindered his 2010 camp, so was sent down and asked to dominate in the AHL, did that. Called up to a struggling Leafs team and asked to provide a spark while only playing 10 minutes a night. 2011 camp was asked to get leaner and faster and that there would be a spot for him, gets hurt, loses his spot to Matt Frattin whom while I like, wasn't producing. Asked to stay in the minors and dominate while waiting for a call up, did so, scores 3 goals in 4 games, cools off in the next 7 or 8 games, only receiving 10-12 minutes of ice time in which Matthew Lombardi and Tim Connolly taking up his minutes with little to no offensive output and gets demoted. Sent down and asked to keep playing hard work on some things and promises the kid a call up. Carter Ashton gets on the team at the deadline, and with one call up left for the team to use, call up Carter Ashton over Nazem Kadri who was blazing in the AHL having 11 points in his last 6 games only to see Carter Ashton in 10 games provide no points averaging 14 minutes a game on the first line with a -10. Nazem gets called up for two games with the emergency recall in which he scores a goal and provides the shootout winner. Now asked to get stronger and leaner this summer, Kadri decides to take matters into his own hands by working with Gary Roberts who does charge his players roughly $15,000 for a summer workout program I know because one of my buddies is apart of bio steel, only to be told he has among the highest body fats on the Toronto Marlies which is happens to be one of the fittest and fastest teams in the AHL, starts of slow, gets benched, finds his game and takes the league into his hands and is at a point per game pace doing everything he has been told and removing the deficiencies in his game for example the neutral zone turnovers, inconsistent defensive play, and bonehead penalties, only to be possible trade bait for a 34 year old declining goalie? If he does get traded, I hope he terrorizes the Leafs every couple of months the Canucks play the Leafs, because this is the same sad story with Boyes, Rask, Neidermayer, the list goes on. This kid has everything you can want in a prospect, the hands, the shot, the vision, playmaking ability, was a leader in Kitchener was a leader in London is a young leader with the Marlies, is always among the best players on the ice wherever he goes, is an offensive spark plug, dynamite on the powerplay and always made the Leafs powerplay better when he was called up, has the speed, seriously what more does the fanbase and brass want from a guy? He is young, he'll be inconsistent, he'll occasionally do take out, he'll have the odd beer, but who are we to scrutinize every little thing this kid does when all he does is follow everything asked of him to do.
