[QUOTE=slozo;89270701]The Leafs are, as is usual this past decade or so, a very difficult team to guage. There currently haven't been huge changes made, BUT, we have key young guys at key positions (Bernier, Kadri, Reilly, Gardiner, and can even throw in Bozak) who can and probably will continue their upwards trends. So it's very hard to say even by guessing at how these young developing players do, how much that affects the overall team. Then you have to factor in things like potential trades (Franson looks like an extra piece they don't need at this point. Lots of big move trade potential with perhaps Phaneuf, even a Lupul.)
So it's a real guess for me. I almost have to use 'Leaf Logic' at this point, and go by what has happened in the past: they will do the opposite of what most pundits think they will do.
Which means they make the playoffs easily this year, lol.
As other have pointed out quite correctly . . . the East IS for the taking. The former juggernauts of Boston and Pittsburgh are in decline, it would appear. Lots of other middling teams with similar problems as the Leafs. So I'll predict that Reilly and Kadri step it up bigtime, and start leading this team, and Bernier plays 60 games, to take us into the playoffs confidently.[/QUOTE]
as a matter of fact, they have been exceptionally easy to read and predict and very consistence
cellar dwellers.
maybe you find is so difficult to see , form of denial?
your love for team and hope, won't let you see the ugly fact since the first lockout.
