"The Toronto Maple Leafs won the Tyler Bozak sweepstakes on Friday, signing the NCAA centre to a two-year entry level contract that could be worth almost $4 million per season if he achieves all bonuses." -- TSN.ca

The Leafs, Tyler?  Really?

At last count, 25 GMs were sprouting chubbies chasing you, including The Bryan.  You could have gone anywhere you wanted.  You picked Toronto.

You could have come to a team with a demanding, yet perfectly rational fan base.  Instead, you picked equally demanding yet...um...rather less sane rational.

You could have come to a team that, with one glaring exception never to be repeated (ever), has been extremely competive (and on one memorable occasion, of ever-so-close Cup winning caliber) for over a decade.  Instead, you picked the guys rockin' circa 1993 mullets over their mouldy Dave Keon jerseys.

You could have come to a team whose owner burns for Lord Stanley's Mug with the heat of a million suns and has stated publicly that he will not rest (or even better...stop spending money) until that dream becomes reality.  Instead, you picked a faceless, monolithic pension fund who once tried to buy most of Argentina just because they could and whose Board of Directors wouldn't know Wendel Clarke if he hit on their fathers.  Nor would they care as long as the money kept rolling in.

You could have come to a team with the most offensively gifted first line in the NHL to learn from THE Captain, Heater, a back-to-back-almost-to-back fifty goal scorer and, uh, Giggles (I said offensively gifted).  Instead, you picked Lee Stempniak and Alexei Ponikarovsky.

You could have come to a team chocked to the tits with young studs like Furbligno, Runaway Shanon, The Winch, Pascal Leclaire, Illya Zubov, and C-Bass.  Instead, you picked Luke Schenn and...er...help me out here...

You could have come to a team with a brand new coach with everything to prove, and whose main philosophy is "Hey look!  A puck!  Let's go get it!".  Instead, you picked a narcissistic cyborg who won't hesitate to toss you into a wood chipper if he thinks it will further his career.

Instead, you picked the Toronto Maple Leafs.

So, yeah.  Good luck with that.

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