Retired Leaf defenseman calls out former team's development strategy

"The only thing that I do agree with on these rankings are drafting and development. Like, they deserve a C because, I've stated all along, and this goes to when Kyle Dubas was managing this team. When you put yourself in a position to build a salary structure with your team where you're going to build around four forwards, okay, and it's going to occupy a large percentage of your cap; almost half of your cap: How the heck, organizationally, you did not decide to draft and develop more stud defenseman, is beyond me. Like, that's what has kept this organization back, is that since Morgan Rielly, what defenseman has this team drafted that developed that has been a stud on defense? Justin Holl, Sandin, Liljegren. Like, that's where the organizational failure has been with this— with this team, is that, if built around four forwards and you just continue to draft forwards to play with those guys, it's like: Hey, draft and develop big, stud defenseman so that up at this point here, you got guys that're probably be in their third or fourth years an absolute stud on your blue line. Instead, now, you talk and they get a D+ for trading. Well yeah, they get a D+ for trading because every year they're trying to trade for a defenseman, give up draft picks, and— and patchwork that defense to sort of give them a chance to win instead of drafting and developing these guys and in your system for three— three to six, seven years. That's been the organizational failure for this Maple Leafs team."