Doesn't seem to me...
..that Fletcher got all the control bandied about on this thread. I did like the Peddie/Fletcher presser....the Toronto media did not use kid gloves...including asking why Peddie was needed in the search for a permanent GM, when he had just hired a hockey man with over 40 yrs experience. A couple of shots were also taken at Fletcher, including asking why he would not make the same mistakes that got him fired....basically dismantling the team that went to the confenece final...and was 1 win from the finals ...within about a year...the core of that team was ripped out by Fletcher..
IN the end...Peddie is still going to have final say on the "permanent " GM..and that is scary...cause that dickwad knows sweet fuckall about hockey talent..
And....if trading Sundin is your big solution..think again... I suspect the market for the "rentaplayer" after the famous busts by Forsberg, Kariya and others will drive the value of that market so far down..that Toronto may as well keep the only front line NHL talent they have....the drop off in ability between Sundin, and the next best forward on the team, Antropov(doesn't that tell you something about this team's assessment of talent??)... I'd only trade Sundin if he can be packaged with one of the big salary albatrosses....Like McCabe or Kubina...and that might free up some salary to get some real NHL talent to the team in the offseason
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