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Honestly I am very curious to why that's the only NHL team he follows but for whatever it's worth that wasn't a recent follow. I remember someone pointing it out well before all the chatter happened.

I meant to add that by all accounts the initial meeting Berube had with Chayka/Sundin reportedly went so well that people didn't think the firing was going to happen, so that note probably shouldn't mean too much. But it's a Rogers employee in Friedman confirming that a meeting did in fact happen.

Per Friedman they did interviews with 15 candidates via zoom, and hey they can't all be winners at that number. I'd be more worried if we find out that he makes the cut for the next round of interviews.

I think people are pushing the "leaks we don't like are actually fake news" idea a little too hard lately honestly. Speaking of...

Yeah I used to push Boudreau hard as Leafs coach but at his age and not coaching for the past 3 seasons I think that ship has sailed.

He wanted full control, which never happened with the Avs and likely wasn't ever going to happen anytime in the near or even distant future with Sakic above him. I would guess even his initial promotion to GM 4 years ago was mostly just a salary/title bump than anything in order to keep other...

Tough to take Frank's word over Friedman's, but in this case I hope he's right.

So Carle's out, Malhotra's out (hired in Vancouver), Woodcroft's apparently not even being interviewed. That would have been my top-3 heading into the coach search. Curious where they go from here. Cassidy is of course still kicking around although reports didn't seem to suggest he was high up...

It's the eve of the Stanely Cup Finals and multiple NHL GMs are talking about *checks notes* the Toronto Maple Leafs. Also it was only like 3 or 4 days ago when McCrimmon found the time in his very busy schedule (way too busy to deal with the Cassidy situation) to go on a Toronto radio show to...

Well deserved promotion for Brackett, who has been at the top of his field for a pretty long time now. Not quite a Carle-level hire, but still something big enough that should give pause to the idea that there's no respect to the Leafs current front office. Also maybe not super notable but...

Respectfully you're way, way, way off. A conversation for another top-4 pick doesn't happen without Knies involved.

Koblar is a year younger than Celebrini and 71 days older than Stenberg and putting up similar production here. Makes you think... (that we shouldn't read too much into IIHF scoring numbers but still neat nonetheless).

Probably more often now that they're potentially signing ground-breaking NIL deals.

Rogle finished 4th in the regular season and then lost to the 1st place team in the finals, so pretty significant step up from Linkoping. Hopefully Klobar still gets an opportunity to play significant minutes. They had a 20-year old lead their team in scoring this past season though so it's like...

I'd love to take a swing on the highest offensive upside or best skating defenceman possible, which from that list Axel Elofsson fits the bill. Aside from that Xavier Villeneuve would be a bit of a dream pick, but he would need to slide hard to make it to our 2nd rounder (his rankings are all...

Yeah and that's a big reason why I still lean toward Woodcroft at the end of the day: experience coaching McDavid and Draisaitl, and as an assistant coach Thornton and Marleau.

Goldberg was one of the people involved with the alleged-but-then-thrown-out tampering accusations Chayka had to deal with right away, so I'm sure people will freak out if that does happen. Not like GMs hiring people they had a previous working relationship with isn't super common (there's like...

Would the Leafs have any interest in adding another bald Swede to the front office? If you subscribe to the notion that a lot of what went wrong in Vancouver was ultimately Rutherford's fault then Allvin could be a pretty solid pick-up in an AGM position.