from Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun,

The damage of this past Maple Leafs season lingers and cannot be easily undone.

The Leafs went to Florida hoping to trade more than draft picks and came away wondering where they proceed from here.

The market for Phil Kessel was thin and only marginally active.

The market for Tyler Bozak, Kessel’s centre of choice, was non-existent. The Leafs did not receive a single phone call inquiring about Bozak’s availability.

The two players that Brendan Shanahan would most like to move remain with his club and now a strategy revision of sorts is likely underway.

The Leafs would like to move Kessel, who apparently wants to stay. And they want to keep captain Dion Phaneuf, who apparently wants to leave. And since Shanahan talked avidly about changing the culture and the leadership group of the club, not one player of consequence has been moved out yet.

An alteration of management’s strategy has now become a work in progress and all bets are off about the roster being blown up before September.

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