i along with a huge amount of leaf fans have never understood the B grade front office, coaching and scouting staff the leafs have maintained for such a long time. A lot of that had to do with Larry Tanenbaum never wanting to give up the reigns to real hockey men and the teachers being stingy idiots..but after his dismal failure to put a team together, he finally saw it start hitting his bank account a little tiny tiny bit....not making the million dollars profit per playoff game stung a little.
The team got sold and rogers and bell realized, holy crap if we own 100% of the broadcast rights on a leafs playoff run, cha ching cha ching.
You are a team with literally, unlimited resources, naturally you should be able to throw as much money as required in order to staff your front office and maintaing the best facilities with the best of the best. Finally we are starting to see some movement on this front. They are getting bonafied hockey guys with great reputations and are basically just throwing more money at them than any other franchise could dream of in order to ensure that they win every time. Its not fair, but im not complaining.
Look at Toronto FC..your team absolutely sucks, so you just pay a guy the most money every paid to a player in the MLS, and further to that the most money to any italian soccer player in the entire world....and the funny thing is is that we soak it up like a dry sponge...the stadium is full again and TFC is seeing their investment get paid back very very promptly.
Its all business at the end of the day and logic easily tells you, an above average team in any sport in this city is a friggin gold mine...i.e. see the toronto raptors...straight forward business.