I think that you start to look at the areas that you're trying to improve within the organization and use your financial backing to pry these executives away from other teams.
For example, your director of scouting has just left. Who amongst the league has had the best drafts?
Tampa Bay has had very good drafts lately. Al Murray has been there for the past 7 years:
2011 - Namestnikov, Kucherov, Nesterov, Palat
2012 - Koekkoek, Vasilevsky, Paquette, Dotchin
2013 - Drouin
2014 - DeAngelo, Point
2015 - Stephens, Cirelli, Joseph
2016 - Howden, Hajek, Katchouk, Raddysh
2017 - Foote, Volkov
So you look at that body of work and say he's been very successful. So as a franchise, you approach him and say we'll give you 5 years at almost twice what you're making in TBay.
That's the approach that the Leafs should be taking with the league.