If you ask me, the leafs will get better once Burke gets rid of his dead beat buddy Ron Wilson, and gets a coach that knows more about the newer style of the game, and has a better read on developing young players...
Burke is at fault for alot of the Leafs shortcomings too. He just plays it be the numbers and depth chart, refuses to admit he's wrong. If he noticed in the Pre-season that Riemer was better than Gustov! Then the leafs would've been a play off team, not to mention keeping Mike Zigomanis up since he's one of the better penalty killers and faceoff man in the game. But again it's a numbers game with Burke and Wilson, they rely too much on their projected depth charts not actually on who's playing good enough to be on the team.
Another major misread of Burke and Wilson was sending Kadri down in his first year! I don't care how bad you are defensively but when you lead the team in scoring in the pre-season you BLOODY PLAY THE KID! Lol... HOw would you have felt if the coach told you "yah you scored four goals and such but you still need more developing, we're gonna keep up Deadbeat Rick WALLIN instead of you!" Skinner on Carolina scored one goal in the preseason and he still made the time... Kadri missed out on 2 years of good proffessional development with the Big CLub Courtesy of Burke and Wilson's poor hockey insight and poor read of the game today!
I rest my Case,,, Do yourselves a favor and just follow a more well run franchise liek Detriot or Vancouver, and do without the stresses of analyzing a team that seems will never be fixed lol..