Oh jeez...what else is new?  We heard this speculative talk last month when the Laffs lost to the Coyotes in Phoenix.  This is the second or third time in about six months the Laffs have made contact with the Wings to pick apart the organization to fix their problems.

Like you told me the last time, Paul, “There’s too many bosses in TO.” The sooner they figure that out (read:  get rid of the red tape), the sooner their rebuilding efforts get under way.

Posted by SYF from Las Vegas, NV on 01/24/08 at 01:23 PM ET

Kelley is spewing such hyperbole that it’s hard to tell if he’s serious or if he’s satirizing (is that a word?) the rest of the Toronto media.

There are many things that quickly and completely throw Kelley’s ideas into disregard. I’ll stick with the one that jumps out at me the very most:

If Kelley suggests that it would take Mats Sundin, a prospect, and a high-round draft pick to convince Ilitch to let the Leafs have Holland… isn’t that just taking away one of the very few reasons Holland would want to go there in the first place? Toronto is already pathetic when it comes to quality players in the pipelines. Why would Holland want to go to a team that had to give away extremely precious picks and prospects just to get him? So he can get fired that much sooner because MLSE doesn’t understand that because of the way they’ve bankrupted the club’s talent pool that Holland would need five years to turn it around?

Nevermind the fact that this is all with the assumption that Holland wants the Leafs job to begin with…

Posted by Nathan on 01/24/08 at 04:50 PM ET

I do think that whoever does take the job demand a box in which to put all the extraneous advice-spewers, though.  That is actually an excellent idea.

Posted by Baroque from Michigan on 01/24/08 at 05:42 PM ET