Believe it or not, this wasn’t the first time the Toronto Maple Leafs tried to acquire John Tavares.
Over the years there have been what feels like thousands of big name free agents who Toronto Maple Leafs fans, have hoped and dreamed would sign with their favorite team and lead them to a championship. I’ll give just a small list of names:
Brad Richards, Bobby Ryan, Ilya Kovalchuk the list goes on.
Here’s how it usually turned out:
Mike Komisarek, Colton Orr, David Clarkson, Colby Armstrong.
I can understand why we did this to ourselves, free agents don’t cost any assets aside from money.