The Toronto Maple Leafs know the year is not 2009, and that Joe Thornton is not in the prime of his career anymore.
The London Ontario native has been arguably the best playmaker in the NHL for nearly two decades, and still continues to produce as well as you would expect a 40 year old to in the now young and speedy NHL game.
The Leafs should sign him.
Toronto Maple Leafs and Joe Thornton
Unlike like the veteran additions of Patrick Marleau and Jason Spezza, Joe Thornton would add a completely different element to the Toronto Maple Leafs that they have come to so desperately miss, after trading away the only player who had that in Nazem Kadri last summer.