tavares was worth was tavares got. maybe you can day he should have not aigned at all and thats fair. im just saying it was made even worse by covid flat cap. if the cap was 92 millions, if you say he is worth 8 now it means he is worth at least 9.5 with a higher cap too.

everyone draft for needs.

the first was higher that it should have been because of weird covid playoffs format. keeping him would have been worst. you can go on and say it should have cost a 7th round pick if you want, but if no one wanted to take that offer, its not dubas fault. its only a bad trade cause of a bad signing.he had nothing to do with.

you can say that sandin was worth a.billion fist if you want. doesnt matter if no one wants to pay it. like i said, i think it will be a bad deal.

as for Ceci, unless there is something i dont understand, the qualifying offer came from Ottawa and he accepted the offer after the trade. you are free to correct me if there is something else that happened, i am not a 100% sure.

Thats one perspective.
Here's another:

- He worked diligently to keep the core together despite tons of pressure to trade them one of them.
- Marner/Matthews/Nylander are all now underpaid relative to their current performance
- He moved Kadri because of disciplinary issues and he was the 3rd line C at the time. We didn't need a 4.5m dollar 3C with disciplinary issues.
- Andersen wasn't delivering. I'd argue Samsonov & Woll is a better goalie situation especially considering cost.
- Bunting was a HUGE pick up
- Drafted really well with late picks
- Gio, Mccabe, ROR, Acciari, Schenn all great adds.
- Every move that was neutral or negative could be rationalized with sound logic.

My understanding was that Ceci's QO in 2019 was 4.3 million

And that Ceci signed with the Leafs at 4.5 million instead.

Dubas was under no obligation to sign and pay Ceci.

The problem is the team is no better talent wise than the day he got it. Kadri, Hyman, Anderson etc all gone. He has not used multiple first round picks wisely.

Amirov was NOT on Dubas. It was just an unfortunate health situation that couldn’t be predicted

1. The Habs got Kaiden Guhle with the next pick at #16.

2. Drafting Amirov suggested Dubas was drafting by position instead of BPA, given the Leafs needed a Top 6 LW at the time.

They didn't know it was going to be a high first. Plus, there's a whole butterfly affect. If they don't make that trade, Carolina likely don't make the move for Skjei with their own 1st rounder, which means that they don't beat NYR in the play-in, and they get the 1st overall pick New York won, which means Laf is a Cane instead. You could also make the argument if they don't move Marleau, they don't keep Marner because they'd have had no cap room

interesting, so for some reason he signed at for 0.2 million more. (maybe to avoid arbitration?) in the end it doesnt save a lot of money.

Why not keep the more effective Sandin at 1.4m and more years of control than over the retained 2m McCabe who has not been good.?

Dubas always had that option.

Sure.

Can't say I agree with that.
Andersen wasn't good in Toronto especially his last year.
Kadri was mediocre in Toronto.
Hyman was a 40-50 point guy in Toronto.

Contending teams also spend their 1st rounders.
Not unusual.

He inherited a core of Matthews, Marner, Nylander, Tavares, and Reilly — he has not added anything to that core in 5 years.

His attitude of I’m not sure I’m coming back were ungrateful. Shanny pulled him out of the OHL and gave him the GM job for a team with a storied hgistory, loaded with talent and in return he wasn’t sure he wanted to come back? See ya later. This is a multi billion dollar franchise, a dream job — the Leafs need someone that would kill to be here.