How much would you pay for the Leafs?

So our good friends from Montreal just sold for a mere $550 mill (or $600+ according to the CBC). Any way you tabulate the digits that's some cool cash. But what about the cash cow? How much milk would it take to tip'er? Is it udderly impossible to determine?

Sorry, I'm feelin' a bovine kinda fine. I just got Milk. Like literally, I just got up and got some. I like the jug from Mac's over the bags. Stays fresher.

I swear I DID NOT grow up on a farm, but BB should check into a "funny" one if he attempts to sign defenceman, Mike Komisarek July 1st. I'd rather see the soft American stick with the 550 Guys of Gauchetiere and the Billion Boys of Bay push for something else, or not. When healthy isn't Mike Van Ryn the same type of player?

Hey, do you think the Leafs could actually fetch a bizzzillion bucks? I've read and heard the whole package (Leafs, Craptors, ACC) is valued at one and a half bill. That's lozza dough, but you've gotta believe if sold tomorro it would all be worth a ho lot mo. I mean the whole organization is arguably at its combined worst these days, mostly thanks to its really bad performance on the floor and ice. I'm just sayin', but wouldn't an improved product help grow the bottom line subsequently inflating the size of the empire? We often criticize MLSE for reaping major benefit from us minus much reciprocation, if any. Now imagine if the company's sporting entities actually gave back? Mo money fo sho. Mo revenue. Mo value.

New and improved?

Let's face it: the Leafs brand, while still very lucrative and widely popular, needs a boost. Tradition's great, a winning tradition is greater. I'd argue that building and maintaining a winning tradition is the Leafs' obligation to Canadian sport, culture and even our ecomony. When the Leafs are good so is just about everyone else. Unfortunately they've been ducking their responsibility of national importance since the lockout, 42 years if you're only counting cups. But hey, with any luck or even bovine intervention, a major push upwards towards better will take occur later this week in Montreal, where franchises and the rinks in which they play sell for serious money, just not Maple Leaf type money. And depending on just how big a "boost" we're talking about here, maybe nowhere even close.

Last October forbes.com valued the Leafs at $448 Million. So, how much would you pay for the Leafs?