If Pronger or Chayka is the pick, may as well just throw in the towel on this entire era of Leaf hockey.
Last thing we need is another unqualified meathead ex-player, or another fake nerd (that also has a proven track record or horrible failure and poor judgement).
Yet another Ontario kid who played an entire HOF career without ever having the faintest interest in playing here, but now his meathead, retired, old dumb unqualified ass thinks he should be allowed to ride in here and run our shit.
Decent read here. It really sounds like that if Gillis is actually interested in and accepts the Leafs job, he feels confident enough that they will let him do things his way, which would be the best news of all and ease all concerns of future meddling up top.
The article also goes through Vancouver's situation before he stepped in and it's extremely similar to where the Leafs currently are. Not that it would take a brilliant mind to turn the Leafs into a solid team next year, but I like the idea of a guy with a proven track record as opposed to a guy with "experience" being a middling GM in a league full of morons for a decade+.
It's a no brainer hire I think, I'm just not fully trusting that Rogers would be in love with the personality. He's Masai-esque in many ways: arrogant, demanding, bit of a control freak. But I think it's what they need. No more Dubas esque baby back bitch fake nerd GMs.