I wrote that I didn’t agree that the Toronto Maple Leafs had infallible management. I wrote that I thought signing Patrick Marleau was pretty stupid. And that I didn’t believe Mike Babcock when he hilariously said that he was going to pair Ron Hainsey with Morgan Rielly and use that as one of his top pairings.
I wrote those things because I believe them. There isn’t any historical precedence in the NHL for thinking that players 36 and older should be signed, and it certainly hasn’t escaped my notice that Hainsey and Marleau will come with a combined cap-hit of over nine million dollars.