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Originally Posted by TOfan
Hunter deserve a lot of credit for where the Leafs are today (some will take this opportunity to take shots at their lack of playoff success but as far as roster construction goes, they’re good).
Leafs management team had backing from ownership when Hunter was around to rebuild. I would be pleasantly surprised if Edwards would allow that, but there’s not much reason to think he will.
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Toronto never did a big rebuild though, as in committing to being bad via the tank. They just were bad naturally, outside maybe the Matthews draft. Hell, the Nylander draft they picked after Calgary. They never loaded up on picks, and they retained their "stars" like Kessell, Phanuef, Kadri and Gardiner all the way through.