Doug gilmour was drafted by vancouver and has expressed interest in playing.

Theo fleury was drafted by hamilton and might play since the nhl has blacklisted his stupid ass.

So the toros will suck

there is no way they could be an nhl playoff team.

put down that crackpipe

The one move that toronto had to make was drafting crosby. Even if crosby doesnt join the wha, they would be fools not to draft the best prospect in years and make an attempt to sign him.

I wonder how the prospect draft will influence the nhl???? for instance, tomas Vanek was taken 2nd overall by i think quebec. He is the 5th overall selection by the sabres in 2003 and hasnt signed a contract with the sabres yet. I am terrified that he’ll play in the wha yet somehow the sabres will lose his rights…..we really need his scoring for the future of our team since we never draft players who get to the nhl and score…..

If you think that this:

Kovalchuck/Crosby/Chee-Choo

Corson/Hartnell/Thomas

May/Chimera/Schaefer

McCarthey/Gavey/Duoll

EXTRA: Leeb

Can in any way shape or form compare to this:

Roberts/Sundin/Mogilny

Antropov/Nieuwendyk/Ponikarovsky

Tucker/Stajan/Nolan

Kilger/Wilm/Domi

EXTRA:Perrott, Belak, Druken

Well son, you have some serious issues. Kovalchuck is great. Chee-Choo is pretty good. Crosby is far from being the great one yet! Where exactly are they gonna get their offense from? May and Schaefer?….well you obviously don’t watch very much hockey now do you. The Leafs have stars and they have depth. Last year the Leafs had 12 players with 11 or more goals. They had more players in double digits goalwise than the league leading scorers from Ottawa. How many are in that group, maybe 5 at best! Even with Joe Thornton the Leafs would walk all over that sad bunch.

The Leafs defense is the highest scoring D in the entire league. They have a legitimate Norris candidate in McCabe (4th overall), and a two time Norris winner in Leetch. Both of them posted +50 points, McCabe had +22 and Leetch was +11 after he came over. They have a strong defensive d-man in Klee, a good transitional d-man in Kaberle and some decent filler Berg/Pilar. They desperately need another top defensive d-man to round them out. But my god man, they are really good, open your eyes.

Kaberle may not be the physical defenseman that the Leafs need, but he sure knows how to play positionally and can pass the puck with the best of them. Berg and Pilar are by no stretch the answer to our problems, but are decent with limited minutes. Leaf’s D would run all over the Toro’s 9 times out of 10.

2. Crosby wont enter the draft unitl next year…meaning he has to play somewhere in order to still be recognized and keep his stock up. The WHA is the best thing for him right now. You’ve got experience with these veteran NHLers and physical play of the career minor leaguers trying to get back in the spotlight.

3. Gretzky played for the Indianapolis Racers (WHA) before he played for the NHL. Messier also played for the Racers and the Cincinatti Stingers. Howe played for the Aeros and the Whalers…all WHA teams, all who played a big part on how they “left the mark on the game” both in the NHL and the WHA

Why are you writing a post for a team that is most likely not going to exist and even if they are they are going to look nothing like this. Nobody has a clue what anything in the WHA is going to look like so lets not waste any of our time debating who is going to be on what team and what team will win it all.

Lastly- how the hell is the defense you mentioned for the Toros better than the one the leafs have. The only player on that list that would improve the leafs defense would be Witt. The rest of them are nothing more than depth defensmen at the NHL level.