I wasn't a Sacco fan by any stretch but i'll give him one thing...it's not the easiest job in the world. Let's put it this way, he was given the keys to drive a car that was well off warranty from a management team that was still learning how to win under a Salary Cap.
Pretty miserable transition from the Sakic days into this current crop but at the end, you now have to look back and realize how tremendous that flop really was for this franchise.
You are either crappy and drafting studs like today's current Penguins and Blackhawks. Or you are stuck in the middle for 40 years like the Maple Leafs not knowing if the arrow is up or down.
Hard to win in this league without that top end talent and Quebec had the same flop to give Colorado a winner. Sacco days just might have produced the exact replica of those winning years. This team is going to by dynamite and we wouldn't be saying that without drafting 1,2,3 in recent years.
Basically....Sacco is in all of our hearts. Just in a funny kind of way