The big day is Monday February 26th. Twelve days away. We’ve gone back and forth on this all year. Are the Toronto Maple Leafs contenders? Are they rebuilding? Everyone has their opinion. Most of them are wrong.
Here is the right one: The Leafs, like every other team, are building towards a winner. Few, if any, teams are ever satisfied with their rosters. The Leafs though, are not rebuilding. Rebuilding means you’re sending out assets for futures and planning to win later.
My experience is that most analysis is pretty black and white, that is, it’s binary: Buy!