Bender said:
cw said:
Rob said:
Bender said:
bustaheims said:
Sounds like Dubas basically engineered his own way out - made demands he knew weren?t going to met and would ultimately lead to his dismissal.
100000%
Strung the Leafs along since the trade deadline? Then at the last minute demand more money? Kinda bizarre.
and then email Shanny on Thurs to say "I'm ok. I'll remain as GM."
Why would you do that if you want out?
Saying "I'm taking a year off to decompress for family reasons" is more appealing for someone to hire than someone who says "I'm not sure because of my family" and then at the last minute makes a whole bunch of demands for money and authority when he thinks he's got the team over a barrel - such that they fire him?
I'm sure someone will give Dubas another shot in the NHL. But if what Shanahan says is what went down, Dubas has damaged his credibility some as a prospective GM.
Because money and power talk. He didn't want to come back in the existing set up and I think after thinking it over he thought he could leverage his way into more because who else would be signing the contracts? Maybe that's what gets you back into it. Anecdotally I have a friend who asked for a raise he didn't think he'd receive at a company because he was thinking of leaving and they gave it to him because they viewed him as too important. Money and power can patch up a lot of holes.
When you go about it the way Dubas appears to have, more often than not, you wind up where Dubas is: looking for a job.
Nothing wrong with asking for more money and authority. But don't play along from the trade deadline until a couple of days ago maintaining a framework of a deal that seems ok and then suddenly demand substantially more at the last moment.
Dubas did that to someone who stuck his neck out to hire him. Someone who sent Lamoriello packing to get him his chance. Someone who backed him when he'd lost four playoff rounds up to the March deadline when Shanahan made his first offer. I would have done the same thing as Shanahan did. I might not have slept on it because the behavior would bother me so much after what I'd done for this person.
Dubas would know that Shanahan had already gone to the board and got approval for the framework of the deal Shanahan thought he had. He embarrassed Shanahan in front of the MLSE board.