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Originally Posted by Leafs67
Given the state of the Leafs organizational depth at the time, those prospects would have been rushed and ruined. Tyler Seguin playing bottom 6 on a deep Stanley Cup champion team isn't the same Tyler Seguin you end up with by forcing him to do the heavy lifting on what was a glorified beer league club between 2008-2010. He'd have been run out of town. Burke recognized as much and made the right move at the right time. Now that the Leafs have some pieces in place, grooming prospects organically a la Detroit is an option. It wasn't always the case.
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but not having good prospects cannot be the reason to not to go out and draft lottery picks. living in toronto, the city was ready for a rebuild, so rushing seguin wouldn't have been a must (similar to how many fans on CP will be just fine, heck maybe even a bit relieved, if monahan goes back to ottawa this fall).
It also makes little sense to go out and invest 2 first rounders to get a 21 year old, as it poses the same problem (putting the load of a franchise on the shoulders of a young player without the necessary talent around him).
he made a major blunder in completely miscalculating the quality of his roster and giving up 1st round picks, despite not having anything close to a playoff grade team.
Just like a bad avs team traded 1st round picks for varlamov... bad teams just shouldn't trade first round picks. sure if top tier players are available i suppose you gotta look at it, but kessel/varlamov are not top tier players. kessel is a solid piece, but is not a player you build your franchise around.