Biggest Leaf story of 2015

[Lauro]

Did we acquire Hunter in 2014?

Babcock.

 

[Warden of the North]

Babcock AINEC.

 

[Pookie]

Shanahan and the Board realizing too late that we have a 30th overall team and missing out on McDavid.

 

[Jimmy Firecracker]

Shanahan and the Board realizing too late that we have a 30th overall team and missing out on McDavid.

Lmao.

Hiring Babcock, no question.

 

[Eb]

The rise of William Nylander isn't much of a story.

Pretty expected. I've been saying it since during his draft year.

(It's like the one thing I've gotten right, give it to me, okay!)

We're not ranking these stories based on how expected they were. We're ranking them on their overall effect to the organization.

 

[Warden of the North]

Shanahan and the Board realizing too late that we have a 30th overall team and missing out on McDavid.

Because it did the Sabres and Arizona so good to tank

 

[Daisy Jane]

I don't consider us hiring Babcock is the biggest story. there was always a chance that it would be - and it was.

Kessel wasn't either.

I would say -

Trading David Clarkson had to be one of the biggest stories, because I honestly and firmly believed we were stuck with that contract for the next umpteen years. I just assumed if we traded Clarkson, we would have gotten a useless player back who sucked and it would have just been frustrating.

Him literally being off the cap (because Horton) was a Lou-ivian move before we even got Lou.

which leads me to

Lou Lamoriello being our GM. that came out of no where. I think we all were penciling Dubas slash Hunter in, kind of reaching for the Pen to write in Mike Futa's name in.... Lou reallllllly shocked all of us and that is a bigger story than us being obvious and offering Babcock the moon

 

[Pookie]

Because it did the Sabres and Arizona so good to tank

.... , said the short term focused fan.

 

[Sonny21]

Biggest I would say Babcock. I voted for Clarkson trade thinking as the biggest shocker overall

Biggest news: Babcock, biggest shocker: Clarkson trade

 

[Anthrax442]

Babs AIAEC

 

[Tak7]

By sheer volume of discussion both here, on twitter, and in the sportsverse:

1 - Babcock

2 - Kessel trade

3 - Clarkson trade.

None of those other stories came anywhere near generating the type of buzz and discussion that followed.

I still remember the pure sense of disbelief when news that Clarkson got moved broke. It was almost celebratory