seasons since 1991 with 100+ points, with one season cancelled. In the 1995-95 season their 70 points were sufficient to comfortably win the President's Trophy, and would prorate to 120 in a full schedule. It's a phenomenal record no matter how you slice it.

Yeah they had the money advantage all those years but then where are the Leafs' Cups?

The amazing thing is that the money advantage was largely snuffed with the new CBA, the Wings responded by shedding payroll like the dickens (buying out Hatcher, Whitney and McCarty) and carrying right on, successfully defending their President's Trophy from pre-lockout to post-.

Small nitpick, but Joseph likely left Edmonton to Toronto for more money. But he certainly left Toronto for Detroit cause he thought the Wings were greener pastures andhe believed he had a better chance at winning the cup there

Not to disagree, but IIRC, the Leafs paid Sundin and Joseph wanted a deal in his range and they wouldn't give it to him. Of course, that's IIRC, and that's always a little dicey.

CuJo changed teams multiple times throughout his career, signing with 5 different teams as a free agent, and only once being actually traded (to the Oilers, during an extended contract dispute). CuJo's loyalty always seemed to be "to his family", which is understandable but is also the reason I didn't feel sorry for him when another mercenary knocked him out of the crease in Detroit. Given he signed two different $24 MM contracts I'm sure his family is doing just fine. His teams on