Winnipeg a huge market? I didn’t even write those words you baffoon. You’re the numbnut who can’t even realize that the Canadian market is overall doing very well. Montreal out-grossed Toronto last year by 2M$. So, Montreal #1, Toronto #2 when it comes to $. Now, that’s REALLY not for bragging since if you put either 1 ahead of the other, it still equals this: almost a third of the Canadian market represent the NHL’s top grossing teams. And i won’t even mention Vancouver.

Also, who cares about a pre-lockout period? Seriously. You’re going off topic so desperately, it’s getting ridiculous. Canadian dollar????? LOLLLLLLL

And yes, as much as the average bear, i am awesomely smart.

Do you even have valid arguments?

If you were alive for the pre lockout NHL you’d know that ever Canadian team other than the Leafs were struggling. The weak Canadian dollar had a lot to do with it as well.

Winnipeg is a huge market? That’s why they went belly up and had to begged for 15 years to get franchise back. You’re smart….

My frame of reference is reality though but you’re awesome because the Hab won a cup twenty years ago, bfd.

And you jokes won a cup about 200 years ago. Enjoy Komisarek, Lombardi, and the rest of your worthless crop of losers.

Do you even know diddly squat about hockey? Do you even watch a game or two per year`?… pfft…

For that 1 million cap hit……

Not bad replacement if he stays healthy…

It was a rant, I resent other Canadian fanbases boasting about their teams given the only reason their competitive is that the Leafs have their hands tied by the league to artificially prop up small markets (i.e. ever other Canadian market).

Excuses? For what? I’ve criticized current MSLE management more then anyone on this site and I was the first to bury Burke but I’m making excuses for him? You don’t make sense but I’m confused, ok…….

Whatever, there is no other loser fanbase in the MLB, NBA, NFL or the NHL that brags about championships in the seventies. My point was that in a free market the Leafs are spenders Yankees and the Habs are sellers Kansas City Royals. Montreal was such a terribly run organization that their last Hall of Famer walked out on them to go to a real market at the time Colorado but the Habs won a cup 20 years ago, their beasts… pfft…

Who said the Leafs are the worst managed team??? Not me. Man, some of you are pretty darn good at finding answers for problems that don’t even exist.

The only thing i registered when reading your reply that had nothing to do with my subject is this: excuses excuses excuses. In an unpopular market, with no freakin’ cash, how can a team like the Coyotes continue to improve and surpass all expectations when your “Yankees of hockey” could’nt even beat the Marlies even if Kessel’s life depended on it? All that while operating under the same rules and cap limitations.

And by the way my confused friend, at 24 Cups AND being the oldest team in hockey AND having about 50 numbers retired AND enough banners to build a new ozone layer, i think it’s pretty safe to say the Montreal Canadiens are not only the Yankees of hockey, but they’re the entire freakin’ MLB-NBA-NFL-MUNDIAL of hockey. Oh yeah.

Also, you prove your OWN self wrong when you admit that Gustavsson chose Toronto: hello, Burke convinced him!!!!

Someone call a doctor.