lifelonghockeyfan
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Babcock would probably cry of joy if the Leafs were able to acquire Weber.
It's a tricky player to acquire. From a rival team in our division and the GM that acquired him has an ego, so trading him for anything less than an overpayment for the price he paid to acquire him is not going to happen. His contract isn't really that great due to the term either. If Bergevin was fired, maybe there would have been a way to make it work but I just don't see it.
So I'm not sure.
I want to leave Babcock out of an GM decisions. 6.25m for Marleau and now 7.8m for Weber. There should be better ways to spend the money. I love the argument so many have given for acquiring Weber,...he's going to retire soon anyway. So maybe just as the Leafs get good, he's gone through retirement or poorer play and the young assets traded to acquire him are no longer Leafs.