I don't think that was the case at all. He was fired. My only point is that events since that time, combined with the obvious disconnect with the Isles last year, makes me think it's probably for the best that Trotz is not coaching the team this year. He may have thought he was ready, but since then it seems like he realized he really wasn't.
When someone says, "this roster was built by Snow" it doesn't mean they don't understand that LL brought in the coach and structure that the team needed. The two are not mutually exclusive.
And somewhere the middle he restored the 'in shambles' Leafs to where the 'younger' guy has not advanced the cause since he left. That's pretty incredible, yet Lou went 3/4 years of playoffs, 2 B2B conference finals, and some GM hardware recognized by his peers in the SAME time frame. Isles fans have never seen anything like this since the early 80's - yet, what about the future? the cap? ... how about the current moment in time?
How are Poile, Dubas, Fletcher, and your boy Yzerman doing? They seem to be fully executing on some plan...
Yes, this is still Garths team imo. He built it. I'm always surprised to what length fans go to convince themselves it isn't.
Yes, some are. Most are too busy crapping on the current regime. But they take every opportunity to lament how LL left them. Some say he should have stayed. It's Leafs fans. They complain about whatever they can... you know this as fact.
Usually teams 'mortgage the future' in an attempt to win, at some point you win or you don't. COL and TB were dishing out the future to win. SJ tried over and over again, but never did. Dumbo in TOR is dishing out everything just trying to win a single round.
They obsessed with the leafs. It must be an age thing. I'd guess it's fans 35 and under who think about the leafs so much. 50% of the anger for tavares was because it was the leafs and not Dallas or San Jose.
I hate them because I live in Canada and everything revolves around TO even though there are 6 other teams here (plus 25 in the US). And their fans here are everywhere and are obnoxious given they’ve won nothing in forever.
Gets rather tiring back-to-back years of not releasing news until September.
I just check now for the Sonny "the bull" Milano signing to be official.
It’s seriously insane that there hasn’t been one iota of news since the draft. Bring back Milbury so we can at least have some moves…ok maybe not.
Of course he wasn’t fired, so they couldn’t just post ways on mutual terms?
That kind of makes my point for me that Lou never did much to improve the roster since taking over.
