Older fan here, I can assure you, when I was a young kid, it was cool to be a Leaf fan, but the Ballard years? It was heeeeeorrrrible to be a Leaf fan. Awful. My best friend growing up, became Leaf Gm, and to see how he was limited by Ballard, was awful as well.
But my DNA was infected with blue and white blood and I have waited for a Shanahan for a long, long time. Thankfully he is here now. And all seems to be going very well.
I would like a better defence and I am not sold on Fred Andersson, although to the poor kids defence I think Babcock overplayed him in the regular season.
Are we Cup contenders? Depends on our defence. Totally..... The forwards will obviously get a lot of work done.
I like this Dubas kid a lot, I think he will fire Babcock's ass if the idiot keeps making bizarre and strange personnel decisions, MLSE has the kind of dough to be able to stomach that.