John Ferguson Jr Fails Bigtime

John Ferguson Jr, the General Manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs franchise, has let down the entire city of Toronto, and millions of fans nation wide. He traded some of the Leafs best players (Joe Nieuwendyk, Gary Roberts, Alexander Mogilny) for the washed up, concussion prone Eric Lindros. Yeah, Lindros is an incredible player, but only when he plays. This guy only manages to squeeze two or three games in a year before he's out injured. Ferguson tried to pin all their hopes on this one guy, one guy who isn't reliable. Nobody expected Lindros to stay healthy all season, and he didn't. He only played a handful of games. And the Leafs suffered as a result, missing the playoffs for the first time in nearly a decade.

But of course Ferguson pushed all the blame on head coach Pat Quinn. Quinn is one of the best coaches in the NHL and has coached Canada's world cup teams and Olympic teams, winning a gold medal in Salt Lake City. But Ferguson fired Pat Quinn as head coach of the Leafs in response to the poor season that the Leafs had. But when you look at the talent they had a couple seasons ago (Mats Sundin, Owen Nolan, Joe Nieuwendyk, Gay Roberts, Alexander Mogilny, Brian Leetch, Ron Francis) and how of that list, only Sundin remains, there's really no surprise at all that the Leafs had a disappointing season. But look at how the Leafs battled back towards the end of the season, winning all of their final 5 games. That was Pan Quinn. The players were tired and sick of their disappointing season, but Pat rallied them back to take one last stab at it. And this is how Ferguson repays him. The Leafs were really on a good path towards building a solid team that would have a chance at the cup back when Pat Quinn was the coach and the GM, but ever since Ferguson took over as GM, he has been dismantling the team and now it looks like it may be a long time until the Leafs are able to be a Stanley Cup contender.