Ray Ferraro

He had a goal and an assist in the first five minutes in Vegas, and then he got hurt.

And so I wouldn't forget that either, but I'm not buying at all if I'm Toronto.

I'm going to bite the bullet here, and I think...

If you look at what Boston did last year, they traded five players at the deadline, including some very important ones for them.

And they ended up with Fraser Minton and, unbelievably, the Leafs' first rounder, if it's not number five.

So if the Leafs finish sixth from the bottom, people are aware, right?

If they finish sixth from the bottom, that picks Boston.

Like, this is no time, no time to be buying.

I would look at Boston and say, if I don't want to go into a full process of trying to rebuild this team, then I would look at what Boston did.

They identified what type of team they wanted to be.

They offloaded veterans for younger players, including, like, a guy you never even thought of, that who's Nadinov.

And all of a sudden, you're like, geez, I did a game two weeks ago.

We got four goals.

I know it's the game of his life, but still, not many guys get four goals in a game.

But they became a competitive team again.

Or you go further than that, but that involves into the offseason, and you do, as Prong said yesterday, you strip it way back.

And they've done it before.

They got lucky when they had the number one pick that Matthews was sitting there.

That's not always the case, but I think there's a stark reality they have to face.

The Rangers keep writing letters.