What is the deal with Toronto?  Every single name that has been tossed out so far for a non-vacant GM position is currently working for someone else...yet they figure if they throw enough money at them their current employer will just let them go to Toronto to save the franchise from its enormous profits.

I’m starting to think Ferguson is surrounded by a tornado of circling vultures.

Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 10/26/07 at 11:28 AM ET

I wonder if Scott Morrison, or any other media in Toronto for that matter, have looked at the standings this morning.  They are looking like fools trashing this team every day when the rest of us can see so much positive about them.  They are .500, in 5th place, and have scored the most goals in the NHL.  You can teach Brett Hull to play defense, but you can’t teach Dallas Drake to score 50.

Posted by penaltyshots.ca on 10/26/07 at 11:32 AM ET

How about me?

I would make an excellent GM.

I would not have signed hal gill or pavel kubina for starters, freeing up some 10 millions right off the bat. there were plenty of scrub blueliners out there when they decided to pick those players up.  they would have been further ahead acquiring Luongo and signing a 2nd line defensive defensemen for around 2 mil per year.

There, defense solved, playoffs assured.

the leafs organization can contact me at

I am currently working, so will need a two weeks notice.

Thanks, and ill be seeing you in the playoffs leafs fans.

Posted by DrW from detroit, mi on 10/26/07 at 01:13 PM ET

Sweet zombie Jeebus, don’t these guys ever quit? First Bowman, then Holland, now Jim Rutherford. Oh, yes, that’s right, Holland and Rutherford can be lured away from where they’re successful and happy (as well as avoiding the relentless pressure of obsessive media vultures) by the Leafs filthy lucre.

Next thing you know they’ll be talking about resurrecting Sam Pollock and using the Leafs riches to hire him as general manager.

Posted by Spector from Charlottetown, PEI, Canada on 10/26/07 at 01:14 PM ET