Lol. That hurt, but that's not what killed him. Years of poor drafting and trying to fill holes with bad contracts from UFA. When you don't draft well, you have to fill out a roster somehow. He gave longterm deals to UFAs like Clowe, Volchenkov. Went out and gave a lot of money to plug-ins like Ryder, Zubrus, Havlat, took on Ruutu....
There wouldn't be any need for those losers if you draft well, but his hand went cold a long time ago.
- TheJerseyDevil1
I beg to differ... losing Parise is what killed him, and in the end, losing these two players was ownership's fault more than his, and now new ownership made him a scapegoat. Circumstances circumstances...
As for drafting... it's been average, not poor. Even then, it's mostly die rolls and some teams get guys in late rounds that were supposed to suck and end up being good and they get hailed as foreseers and geniuses when the truth is, the picked a card same as everyone else did and it happened to be an ace.
Edit: Honestly, if I had to pick Lou's single greatest flaw, it's that he was team president and wasn't about to generate enough revenue (ie, losing money) for the owners... this isn't a problem whatsoever in Toronto... the fans will still pay to see a substandard team there, so he'll probably end up doing wonders for them... you know... supposing the infrastructure of the world doesn't collapse by then.
