Tough year for the guy i feel bad for him. First his dad now his job

It is difficult to know how much power he really had to make a difference in Toronto. They were saying on the Torontoradio station that he had gone to the board of govoners with a plan in which they may not make the playoffs for a couple of years so that they could build around youth. The board rejected this plan and told him to come back with one where the goal is to make the playoffs in the first year not down the road.
I remember hearing him in an interview right after the lockout saying that the goal wasn't neccesarily to make the playoffs but just to improve the team and it was one of the smartest things I have heard any member of the Leaf organization say.
I wonder who they will get as a full time GM. I am guessing it will be someone with more expeirience than Ferguson. I think they wanted someone that they could control and that is why they gave Ferguson the job in the first place. Hopefully for Leaf fans they now realize they need a real hockey guy that can make decisions and not someone they can push around.

sort of what daminal said, but, i think for the leafs organization, it is a time for rebuilding. what i think they need to do, is trade sundin, and build for the future. they are decent in prospects right now, with a future goalie in justin pogge, and a decent centre in jiri tlusty. and there wingers dont look to bad. they could trade sundin for some draft picks and good prospects, you also have steen and stajan who are both pretty young. if they could manage to get drew doughty this year in the entry draft or at least luke schenn (shutdown d-man). if they do this, wait some time. and in a few years they could be a pretty dominate team.

Its not like Ferguson had much control anyway. the MLSE did a horrible job and Ferguson just went along for the ride. That is why one of the major points Fletcher put in his contract was that he has control, not MLSE.