What would an ownership that cared about winning do differently exactly?
Pick someone who wouldn't keep Carlyle, for starters. Pick someone who's actually got some experience in the job he's being hired to do, for starters.
I wouldn't pin the Nonis extension (Nonis extension??? Or do you mean Carlyle?) on him though ... those are Shanny's decision.His mistakes were giving nonis an unnecessary extension and the parade planning/take down the pictures remarks.
I think overall it's been positive and I doubt appointing a George Cope approved corporate toady in Leiweke's stead will improve the Leafs fortunes any. This guy was infinitely more qualified than Richard Peddie to run the sports end from on high.
I wouldn't pin the Nonis extension (Nonis extension??? Or do you mean Carlyle?) on him though ... those are Shanny's decision.
From the perspective of the product on the ice, departure of Leiweke is not gonna have as big an impact as a Shanny, Nonis, or Carlyle would have. The job of Leiweke is to set the overall direction and hire the right President / GM (which is Shanny) .... jury's still out on Shanny, but he's sure looking a lot better now after the summer than before.
I don't think the team will feel the departure of Leiweke unless they hire a moron (like Peddie) to replace him.
Yep. Being incompetant, and not being willing to win are two very different things.They sign every cheque asked of them. Analytics department, Burke's lineup of assistant GMs being paid like your average GMs, that new Rapid Shot machine, great training facilities, not opposed to burying bad contracts, a large scouting staff (it was at 20 a few years back, league average was 13).
They could easily cut a lot of that shit if they didn't want to win. Winning would bring in a lot of extra dough though. They know that.
They were a top 5 spending team only once before the salary cap. It was during the Quinn era.
I looked it up somewhere once a few years back.
I wouldn't pin the Nonis extension (Nonis extension??? Or do you mean Carlyle?) on him though ... those are Shanny's decision.
From the perspective of the product on the ice, departure of Leiweke is not gonna have as big an impact as a Shanny, Nonis, or Carlyle would have. The job of Leiweke is to set the overall direction and hire the right President / GM (which is Shanny) .... jury's still out on Shanny, but he's sure looking a lot better now after the summer than before.
I don't think the team will feel the departure of Leiweke unless they hire a moron (like Peddie) to replace him.
I think where you miss a guy like TL, if you don't hire another rock star to replace him, is when you go executive/big fish hunting. Does Masai leave Denver if TL doesn't court him? Does Defoe leave the EPL for....Canada, if TL isn't balls deep into the process? Shanny probably comes to Toronto anyway, because something something Mimico, but the other big name guys joining the organization? I doubt. That's TL's impact, his ability to identify high end people and bring them to him.
Yeah but that job is done. And unless he didn't do a good job they should be set in that area. He built those foundations.
No but he put the people in place to do the job. That was his task as far as the teams are concerned. That was accomplished.
Personally I don't really care about the winter classic, all star game, 100th anniversary and next condo development stuff.
Yeah, but he brought in the guys who will be responsible for that. So unless he did a bad job it shouldn't matter. The teams should be left in good hands.