Lack of drafting for me, its fine letting UFA players walk away and using them as your own rentals if you are constantly drafting and developing but there's no point in trading those players for picks if you can't develop the prospect.
Toronto is at a stage in the organization were they need to start inserting young good ELC players into the lineup to be able to add to the core via trades and free agency, and we haven't seen that yet. We haven't had a single ELC contract player in the lineup for us full time. The elite teams of the NHL are constantly adding cheap young ELC players into there lineup and it helps them going forward acquiring players to help in the playoffs.
In saying that, this season instead of paying the Joe Thortons and Vesseys and Boyds, along with the scrub 6th/7th dman 1 million to 1.5m, Toronto has to get value out of Sandin/Lillygren/Robertson/Hollander/Anderson and start actually developing these rookies into NHL players.