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Not sure there's a big need for O'Reilly unless Bozak is also shipped out. It will otherwise just be another excuse to impede Kadri's development.
 
Not entirely sure. He was doing it two years ago and is currently second on the team in faceoffs, but I definitely don't follow the team.
 
Wonder what the outcome will be with Slava Voynov. Might be a buy-low candidate if things go sour in LA.

He's signed long term.
 
Scuttlebutt on the Twitterverse is that Nonis is gone at end of year and Mark Hunter will come in as the new GM. Apparently Dubas really has Shanny's ear and wants to go in that direction.
 
Hunter would be a good choice, we need more vocal, hockey-hardened guys at the top of the Leafs/MLSE foodchain. Not only do the Leafs have little or no identitiy on the ice, the entire MLSE brand has all the character of a bag of marshmallows.
 
I really don't think Babcock would be willing to work under a personality like Hunter. It's either Babcock the coach with someone like Shanny as the GM or Hunter as the GM with another coach.
 
Nonis is definitely toast at the end of this year. At this point, it seems that Shanahan only kept Nonis and Carlyle around for the dual purpose of stalling for time, and to have a couple of scape goats he can sacrifice at the end of the year before re-setting the clock on this team's rebuild/re-tooling/re-whateveryouwanttocallit.

As for Hunter, sure, I guess I wouldn't have a problem with him getting a shot as GM. I honestly don't have any idea who my pick would be.
 
Burke.

I always wonder if he was left in charge what would've happened.

All those great trades moving out junk for quality youth. He just didn't get a chance to see it through.

Maybe he had a couple of doozies in him if they'd left him in place and we wouldn't be in this spot.
 
“There are players we have in our organization today whose numbers are off-the-chart good, and whose character is just terrible,” Leiweke said. “I don’t care how good your numbers are. If you have bad character you are doomed for failure.”
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That was part of the quote.
 
With todays ability of travel, i don't see the problem of him living in California and working in Toronto. He doesn't need to be here everyday. Come here for important meetings and such and go home the rest of the time.

though i'm guessing there is more to it than that.
 
The problem with the Leafs' structure isn't so much whether TL is the big boss or not ... this is a team where the assistant coaches aren't hired by the headcoach, the headcoach (or ex-headcoach now) was not hired by the GM, the assistant GM's aren't hired by the GM, the GM isn't hired by the President, and soon, once TL is replaced, we'll also have a President who's not hired by the CEO.

I can't name another organization that's structured like that, nor one that is structured like that AND can be succesful.
 
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