Toronto, Onatrio: Where Potential Goes to Die.

Well as it turns out, my assessment of Lee Stempniak was WAAAAAY off. Jesus, should we even give the kid a stick anymore? He might as well be skating the entire rink along the boards at 2 miles per hour like me at a public skate.

And speaking of bad predictions, what the hell is wrong with Vesa Toskala? I'm now fully convinced this guy just doesn't care, and gives up on plays way too easily. I still stand by my claim that the Leafs will never draft Johnny T, but obviously it won't be because of the reasons I laid out earlier.

You'd think if Ves wanted to leave or wasn't comfortable in this god awful losing environment, he'd string together 5 or 6 good efforts in hope that Burkie could unload him to a contender. I really don't get it with this guy. But, we can't have it both ways can we Leaf fans?

I'm one of the many that like what they see with the Leafs long term, in that they're sucking harder than ever and will likely end up with a good to great player come June. I do, however, find myself getting increasingly disappointed with the players that are supposed to be our best, namely Kaberle, Antropov, Poni, Toskala, and Kubina.

But really, if they were playing great, that would just gum up the works in terms of trying to bottom out now wouldn't it? Shouldn't I be glad that they're sucking along with everyone else? Bah, my brain says this is what we need, but my gut says this is definitely not what we want.

Hopefully a couple of GMs will be idiots come the deadline (god I wish JFJ were working with another team, but hey look, Don Waddell!) and we'll get good value for the aforementioned players. I hope Kubina, Kaberle and Toskala all leave, and even though they are young, lets be real for a second: Antropov and Ponikarovsky are not players you build championship teams around. An average car always looks nice next to a rusted out shit box rather than a brand new lamborghini.

I guess we can't have our cake and eat it too my fellow Leaf sufferers. In fact, the mere smell of cake is 3 - 4 years away and for now we have to stomach shit pie, especially from the all knowing media for the next few.

Hang in there people!