Asset management, Doug Wilson style

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Or fleecing John Ferguson Jr. (take you pick).

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[Destroydacre]

Wilson is pretty shrewd when it comes to the trades. Not so much with free agency (see Wallin and Huskins taking up over $4M in cap space)

 

[evolver115]

They make it so easy

 

[mattola]

After the Leafs
At the 2007-08 NHL Season's trade deadline, Ferguson provided analysis of the trades as they came in for TSN.
He currently lives in East Greenwich, RI and serves as a scout for the San Jose Sharks of the NHL

 

[Eddie_Shack]

I just looked into my time machine to see if there is an alternate universe where Toronto never traded for Toskala and actually selected Couture with their own pick.


June 22, 2007: The Toronto Maple Leafs select Logan Couture with the 9th overall pick.

July 1rst, 2007: The Toronto Maple Leafs make some poor decisions on free agents, forking over huge loads of cash to players that every other GM and fan in the league knows is a bum (hmmm, so far everything seems normal)

September 14, 2007: Couture shows up for training camp, heralded by Toronto media as the savior of the Leafs. Radio shows speculate; will he score 50 goals his first year? Or merely 40?

October 1rst, 2007: Logan Couture scores a hat trick in front of a home crowd at the ACC against the Phoenix Coyotes... well, about half of them anyways. Doan, Michalek, and anyone else with an ounce of talent are being rested that day. Even Gretzky took the game off, letting Janet coach the team.

October 2nd, 2007: Logan Couture's face is on the front page of every newspaper in Toronto, along with pictures of Dave Keon, Doug Gilmour, and Darryl Sittler. Several Catholic churches are renamed "St. Logan's Chapel". Logan begins wearing a mask around town to avoid the ever persistent, highly intrusive, and increasingly tiresome random blow job attacks.

October 16th, 2007: Couture plays 22 minutes, has one assist, and is a -2 in a loss. The home crowd, mad with delusion and Labatt, carries him off the ice chanting his name and cheering.

December 21st, 2007: After a ten game span where Couture goes pointless and a -12 despite being on both power play units and playing upwards of 30 minutes a game, he is finally benched and viciously thrown under the bus by head coach Paul Maurice, who is on the hot seat as well.

January 3rd, 2008: After being a healthy scratch for two weeks, Couture makes his triumphant return with a goal and an assist. The jaded Toronto fans now believe he should be traded while his value is still high. Speculation has the 18 year old worth somewhere in the 5 first rounders range, although a guy like Chris Pronger would be acceptable.

February 20th, 2008: With the trade deadline looming, the fans and media are in a frenzy to trade Couture. The teenager is currently a -15 on the season, with 5 goals and 15 assists over 38 games. Desperate to save face, a flustered JFJ works the phones feverishly to get some sort of return on the young winger. Most Leafs blogs and message boards have hot rumors of a Couture for Iginla trade in the works, JFJ is shocked to find no one will give up more than a 4th round pick for Logan.

March 15th, 2008: In a Sun-Times interview, JFJ states that Couture is much to valuable to trade, which is why he never pulled the trigger on any deals at the trade deadline. JFJ states that Couture is part of the core, part of the future, and is untouchable.

October 30th, 2008: Fan and media anger heat up after a slow start, demanding that "the next one" start producing or be shipped out immediately.

November 28th, 2008: Minutes after taking over as GM, Brian Burke sends Logan Couture packing to Columbus for Jared Boll in his never ending quest for "truculence".
Fans cheer the move, proclaiming Couture to be a "piece of shit" and stating that he never had what it took to be an NHLer and especially a Maple Leaf.

July 15th, 2009: Gary Bettman presents Logan Couture with the Art Ross trophy during the annual NHL awards ceremony.

 

[dash]

That's friggin brilliant, Eddie...

+rep

 

[Eddie_Shack]

That's friggin brilliant, Eddie...

+rep

You wouldn't believe some of the things my time machine tells me...