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The Shanaplan File

BG

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Like we've done with past regimes, thought I'd chronicle the moves made by Brendan Shanahan

SHANAPLAN BEGINS --

April 11, 2014 - Brendan Shanahan hired by MLSE as President of the Toronto Maple Leafs

FRONT OFFICE

July 22, 2014 - Kyle Dubas hired as Assistant GM, fire Dave Poulin as VP of Hockey Operations (and Marlies GM), fired Claude Loiselle as Assistant GM

Aug 19, 2014 - Darryl Metcalf, Cam Charron and Rob Pettapiece hired as a newly developed analytics department

Aug 29, 2014 - Brandon Pridham hired as Assistant to the General Manager (Salary Cap/CBA)

Oct 21, 2014 - Mark Hunter hired as Director of Player Personnel

Jan 6, 2014 - Randy Carlyle fired as Head Coach, replaced interim by Assistant Coach Peter Horachek

Apr 12, 2015 - Dave Nonis fired as GM, replaced interim by Dubas and Hunter, Steve Kasper fired as Head of Pro Scouting, Jim Hughes fired as Director of Player Development, Rick St. Croix fired as Goalie Coach, 18 North American amateur scouts fired

May 20th, 2015 - Mike Babcock hired as Head Coach ($50m/8yrs)

June 16, 2015 - hire D.J. Smith as Assistant Coach, Babcock names Jim Hiller and Andrew Brewer Assistant Coaches

July 20, 2015 - hire Ari Vuori as Director of European Scouting, Steve Briere as Goalie Coach

July 23, 2015 - Lou Lamoriello hired as GM

July 24, 2015 - Dave Morrison re-assigned as Head of Pro Scouting

Aug 14, 2015 - hire Jacques Lemaire as Special Assignment Coach

Aug 22, 2016 - Mark Hunter promoted to Assistant GM

April 30, 2018 - Lou Lamoriello steps down as GM (end of original contract)

May 11, 2018 - Kyle Dubas promoted to GM

May 22, 2018 - Mark Hunter steps down as Assistant GM, leaves Maple Leafs

May 23, 2018 - Brandon Pridham promoted to Assistant GM

May 24, 2018 - Laurence Gilman hired as Assistant GM

May 23, 2019 - Paul McFarland hired as an Assistant Coach (D.J. Smith poached by the Senators)

June 29, 2019 - Dave Hakstol hired as an Assistant Coach

Nov 20, 2019 - Mike Babcock fired as Head Coach, Sheldon Keefe promoted as Head Coach

Sept 17, 2020 - Manny Malhotra hired as an Assistant Coach

Sept 25, 2020 - Paul McLean hired as an Assistant Coach

May 17, 2021 - Hayley Wickenheiser promoted to Senior Director of Player Development

July 12, 2021 - Dean Chynoweth hired as an Assistant Coach (Dave Hakstol poached by the Kraken)

July 17, 2021 - Spencer Carbery hired as an Assistant Coach (Paul McLean moves to Advisory position)

July 5, 2021 - Curtis Sanford hired as Goalie Coach (replacing Steve Briere), Wickenheiser, Metcalf, Hardy promoted to Assistant GMs

ROSTER

June 28, 2014 - acquire Roman Polak -for- Carl Gunnarsson, 2014 (CGY) 4th round pick

July 1, 2014 - sign Stephane Robidas UFA

July 3, 2014 - sign Mike Santorelli UFA

July 22, 2014 - sign David Booth UFA

July 28, 2014 - sign Daniel Winnik UFA

Oct 9, 2014 - claim Richard Panik off waivers

Feb 15, 2015 - acquire Olli Jokinen, Brendan Leipsic, 2015 (NAS) 1st round pick -for- Cody Franson, Mike Santorelli

Feb 25, 2015 - acquire Zach Sill, 2016 (PIT) 2nd round pick, 2015 (PIT) 4th round pick -for- Daniel Winnik

Feb 26, 2015 - acquire Nathan Horton (LTIR, $5.3 until '19-20) -for- David Clarkson

Mar 2, 2015 - acquire Eric Brewer, 2016 (ANA) 5th round pick -for- Korbinian Holzer

June 19, 2015 - acquire Zach Hyman -for- Greg McKegg

June 26, 2015 - acquire 2015 (TOR) 2nd round pick, 2015 (CHI) 2nd round pick, 2015 (PHI) 3rd round pick -for- 2015 (NAS) 1st round pick

June 27, 2015 - acquire Martin Marincin, Brad Ross -for- 2015 (PIT) 4th round pick

July 1, 2015 - acquire Kasperi Kapanen, Nick Spaling, Scott Harrington, 2016 (PIT) 1st round pick, 2016 (NJ) 3rd round pick -for- Phil Kessel($1.2 retained until '21-22), Tim Erixon, Tyler Biggs, 2016 (PIT) 2nd round pick

July 1, 2015 - sign Daniel Winnik, PA Parenteau, Mark Arcobello, Matt Hunwick

July 6, 2015 - sign Shawn Matthias UFA

Sept 27, 2015 - sign Brad Boyes PTO/UFA

Oct 6, 2015 - claim Frank Corrado off waivers

Feb 9, 2016 - acquire Jared Cowen, Colin Greening, Milan Michalek, Tobias Lindberg, 2017 (OTT) 2nd round pick -for- Dion Phaneuf, four AHL league players

Feb 21, 2016 - acquire Colin Smith, 2016 (COL) 4th round pick -for- Shawn Matthias

Feb 22, 2016 - acquire Raffi Torres, 2017 (SJ) 2nd round pick, 2018 (SJ) 2nd round pick -for- Roman Polak, Nick Spaling

Feb 27, 2016 - acquire Alex Stalock, Ben Smith, 2018 (SJ ) 3rd round pick -for- James Reimer, Jeremy Morin

Feb 28, 2016 - acquire Brooks Laich, Connor Carrick, 2016 (WAS) 2nd round pick -for- Daniel Winnik, 2016 (ANA) 5th round pick

Mar 28, 2016 - sign Kasimir Kaskisuo

June 20, 2016 - acquire Frederik Andersen -for- 2016 (PIT) 1st round pick, 2017 (SJ) 2nd round pick

June 25, 2016 - acquire Kerby Rychel -for- Scott Harrington, 2017 conditional pick

July 1, 2016 - sign Matt Martin

July 2, 2016 - sign Roman Polak

Aug 22, 2016 - sign Jhonas Enroth

Oct 11, 2016 - claim Seth Griffiths off waivers

Oct 24, 2016 - claim Ben Smith off waivers

Jan 10, 2017 - claim Curtis McElhinney off waivers

Feb 4, 2017 - claim Alexey Marchenko off waivers

Feb 27, 2017 - acquire Brian Boyle -for- Byron Froese, 2017 (TOR) 2nd round pick

Mar 1, 2017 - acquire Eric Fehr, Steven Oleksy, 2017 (PIT) 4th round pick -for- Frank Corrado

Mar 17, 2017 - sign Miro Altonen (KHL)

May 16, 2017 - sign Calle Rosen (SHL) and Andreas Borgman (SHL)

June 17, 2017 - Expansion Protection List: Bozak, Brown, Kadri, Komarov, Leivo, Martin, van Reimsdyk, Carrick, Gardiner, Rielly, Andersen

June 21, 2017 - lose Brendan Leipsic to expansion

July 1, 2017 - sign Ron Hainsey, Dominic Moore

July 2, 2017 - sign Patrick Marleau

Oct 6, 2017 - acquire Calvin Pickard -for- Tobias Lindberg, 2018 (TOR) 6th round pick

Feb 25, 2018 - acquire Tomas Plekanec, Kyle Baun -for- Kerby Rychel, Rinat Valiev, 2018 (TOR) 2nd round pick

--Dubas is GM--

May 17, 2018 - sign Par Lindholm (SHL), Igor Ozhinganov (KHL)

June 8, 2018 - acquire conditional 2020 (EDM) 7th round pick -for- Nolan Vesey

June 24, 2018 - acquire 2018 (WPG) 1st round pick, 2018 (STL) 3rd round pick -for- 2018 (TOR) 1st round pick

July 1, 2018 - sign John Tavares

Oct 1, 2018 - acquire 2019 (DAL) 7th round pick -for- Connor Carrick

Oct 2, 2018 - lose both Curtis McElhinney and Calvin Pickard to waivers

Dec 30, 2018 - acquire Michael Hutchinson for 2020 (TOR) 5th round pick

Jan 28, 2019 - acquire Jake Muzzin for 2019 (TOR) 1st round pick, Carl Grundstrom, Sean Durzi

Feb 25, 2019 - acquire Nic Petan for Par Lindholm

May 7, 2019 - sign Teemu Kivihalme (SM-liiga)

May 17, 2019 - sign Ilya Mikheyev (KHL)

June 22, 2019 - acquire 2020 (CAR) 6th -for- Patrick Marleau (no salary withheld), conditional 2020 (TOR) 1st, 2020 (TOR) 7th

July 1, 2019 - acquire Cody Ceci, Ben Harpur, 2020 (CBJ) 3rd -for- Nikita Zaitsev, Connor Brown

July 1, 2019 - acquire Tyson Barrie (50% retained for 2019-20) , Alex Kerfoot, 2020 (TOR) 6th -for- Nazem Kadri, Calle Rosen, 2020 (TOR) 3rd

July 1, 2019 - sign Jason Spezza, Kevin Gravel, Kenny Agostino, Nick Shore

July 23, 2019 - acquire 2020 (VGK) 4th, David Clarkson -for- Garrett Sparks

July 24, 2019 - sign Pontus Aberg

Feb 5, 2020 - acquire Jack Campbell, Kyle Clifford -for- Trevor Moore, 2020 (CBJ) 3rd, 2021 (TOR) 3rd-cond

Feb 19, 2020 - acquire Denis Malgin -for- Mason Marchment

Feb 24, 2020 - acquire 2020 (VGK) 5th -for- Martins Dzierkals, retain $1.1mil of Robin Lehner's contract

Feb 24, 2020 - reacquire Calle Rosen -for- Michael Hutchinson

Apr 7, 2020 - sign Alexander Barabanov

May 5, 2020 - sign Mikko Lehtonen

Aug 25, 2020 - acquire 2020 (PIT) 1st, Filip Hallander, Evan Rodrigues, David Warsofsky -for- Kasperi Kapanen, Jesper Lindgren, Pontus Aberg

Oct 9, 2020 - sign T.J. Brodie, Wayne Simmonds

Oct 10, 2020 - acquire Joey Anderson -for- Andreas Johnsson

Oct 10, 2020 - sign Zach Bogosian

Oct 12, 2020 - Sign Jimmy Vesey

Oct 16, 2020 - Sign Joe Thornton

Apr 11, 2021 - acquire Nick Foligno, Stefan Noeson -for- 2021 (TOR) 1st, 2021 (TOR) 4th, 2022 (TOR) 4th

Apr 11, 2021 - acquire David Rittich -for- 2022 (TOR) 3rd

Apr 12, 2021 - acquire Ben Hutton -for- 2022 (TOR) 5th

July 17, 2021 - acquire Jared McCann -for Filip Hallander, 2023 (TOR) 7th

July 17, 2021 - Expansion Protection List: Matthews, Marner, Tavares, Nylander, Rielly, Brodie, Muzzin, Holl, Campbell

July 21, 2021 - lose Jared McCann to expansion

July 28, 2021 - Sign Petr Mrazek, Michael Bunting, David Kampf

July 30, 2021 - Sign Ondrej Kase

July 31, 2021 - Sign Nick Ritchie

DRAFT

2014 - (8)William Nylander, Valiev, Piccinich, Joshua, Vesey, Engvall

2015 - (4)Mitch Marner, Dermott, Bracco, Nielsen, Dzierkals, Lindgren, Timashov, Desrocher, Korostelev

2016 - (1)Auston Matthews, Korshkov, Grundstrom, Woll(G), Greenway, Brooks, Middleton, Bobylev, Walker, Mattinen, Chebykin

2017 - (17)Timothy Liljegren, Rasanen, Scott(G), Kara, Gordeev, McGregor, O'Connell

2018 - (29)Rasmus Sandin, Durzi, Der-Arguchintsev, Stotts, Hollowell, Kral, Holmberg, Bouthillier(G), Kizimov

2019 - (53)Nick Robertson, Kokkonen, Abramov, Abruzzese, Koster, Loponen

2020 - (15)Rodion Amirov, Hirvonen, Niemela, Akhtyamov(G), Villeneuve, Ovchinnikov, Miettinen, Rindell, Miller, Fusco, Schingoethe, Tverberg

2021 - (57)Matthew Knies, Voit, Peska(G)

2022 - (38)Fraser Minten, Moldenhauer, Hildeby(G), Grebenkin, Lisowsky
 
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Waiver claims ... McElhinney, Griffiths, others?

March 7(?), Brian Boyle for a 2nd round pick.

Fehr for ... ?
 
If there are things to add, please see if you can find a verifiable date/link?
 
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Toronto trade: Leafs acquire Kerby Rychel from Columbus for Scott Harrington and a conditional pick. #TMLtalk
2:12 PM - 25 Jun 2016
 
I was thinking about doing something like this the other day because the turnaround really has been remarkable.

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I skipped a lot of the minor trades - just core trades.

May track down the draft picks in the future.
 
saw a snap of shanny with his family from a summer or two ago and he still has a 6 pack at 40 something.

conversely, I think we all know what kind of 6-pack Burkie is most familar with.
 
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