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<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Maj</b></div><div>35. I think I am a bit older than you. Yea man. I live in Toronto but I have been watching the **** show from the late 90s and early 2000s. They leafs were good with pat quinn, but honestly ... teams in the west were a lot better and harder. Avs were my team. Also in 99 Buffalo was my fav lol But yea ... Shanahan , his plan, babcock, lou, dubas and everything they did earned me to respect them. They really have their **** together and know what they are doing. I have been following team building since 2000s and read lots of book on hockey and what not, to realize just how doomed certain teams were because of just how unstable they were, because they didn't have a real plan, then you have teams like nash, who had a really good solid head office, but they had a very tight budget and had to draft well and build up their talent. I really looked up that kind of a model. Also how anaheim was built up, before Burke blew it up by trading away the building blocks and got players in their late 30s and just happened to win the cup, but after that the team went to the toilet.

So yea .... I have been following a lot of builders and learning what it takes to get a real team together. did you know since the 70s until now, the leafs had no real scouts, they were all jokes. I dont remember which book I read it in, but if you asked any real scouts in the nhl what they thought about toronto scouting , they knew it was terrible. Which does explain how toronto was so bad at drafting and building up talent.</div></div>

Ahh, so your 4 years older than me soon to be 3 lol. And I agree and have followed every team as well. Nashville still has mostly the same leadership. Pat Quinn is also from my hometown (we/they actually renamed the street he grew up on to Pat Quinn Way, I miss him dearly as he was monumental in our community, very sad to see him go?? I also got to meet him...great guy) and you're definitely right about our scouting...its been atrocious for years, at least until Shanahan came in with his Shanaplan lol (thank goodness lol) I also liked the Avs and the ducks teams then...(remember Federov on the ducks, still seems kinda weird but also appropriate seems how they won the cup and all) but I truly honestly hope you don't give up on the Leafs as we are definitely happy to have you onboard and hope we don't lose a fan as loyal as you (Shanahan or no Shanahan, ).