I thought I'd compare the front offices of the two teams, and it's not even close, it's obvious the Habs are in it for the long haul. Player development is were the Habs really shine. They have Lapointe, Mellanby, and Brisbois all who have played 1000 nhl games, Mellanby works with the Forwards throughout the system and Brisbois does the same with Defencemen with Lapointe over sees all the prospects in the system. The Leafs have Bobby Hughes who has no nhl experience doing it all. The scouting staffs stick out like a sore thumb, I actually recognize most of the scouts who have played at the pro level on the Habs. To top it off the GM has played over a 1000 games and his two asst GM's have also played at the nhl level, our GM has not and is not surrounded by the evaluation talent that the Habs GM has at his disposal. And the prospect list proves it, Habs by wide margin, their forward prospects are being tutored by Mellanby and their defencemen by Brisbois on a daily basis as they travel the world working with these young prospects, while Hughes works with all the prospects by himself. The long term future favours the Habs by a large margin.
