If I were to venture a guess, Keefe is going to be fired in the next few weeks before the draft. 

Shanahan and Treliving are saying all the right things about him, but once the dust settles and they "evaluate" things, I bet the trigger is pulled knowing a shakeup is in order.

If and/or when that ends up being the case, it will be interesting to see if he is made coach in Pittsburgh.

Quite bluntly, the way this entire situation has played out from all parties involved, Dubas comes out looking like a conniving little b!tch.

The more I think about this, the more I see Treliving not being the sexy pick, but the safe pick.  Hope he is able to get this team to take the next step.

Here's hoping he rectifies the goaltending situation and revamps the aging and underwhelming D core.

Not fond at all of Keefe being kept, but the new GM usually likes to keep that one bullet for later on, so I guess we have to live with it.  I was looking forward to a good purging in the organization from top down -- from GM, coach, and even a core forward or two.

Not the sexy pick I was looking for, but I don't think it'll be that far off from what Dubas provided, so I'll live with it.  Just have to see now what his plans are, because the next two years are going to be critical (well, the next month...).

Look at our shiny new GM!!!  We ONLY got him because he got fired from his last job!  Isn't he great!?!?!?!?!?!!!???!!!?  He failed so hard at his last job that he was fired, but things will be different this time!  WE PROMISE!!!!

Does the same apply to the team that hires Dubas?

Same applies to a huge swath of all GM and coach hires.

That was kind of my point...

What's every ones acceptable number for Matthews?  I would do 8 years $100 million. 

He can get more with the more years he signs.  I'm okay with $13 million a year even though it'll put him about McDavid and MacKinnon, which I don't think he should be the highest paid player if all things were equal.

If he is looking for a shorter contract, then less money.

Still boggles my mind that Dubas gave him the money he did on his last contract and only got 5 years out of it.

Look at our shiny new GM!!!  We ONLY got him because he got fired from his last job!  Isn't he great!?!?!?!?!?!!!???!!!?  He failed so hard at his last job that he was fired, but things will be different this time!  WE PROMISE!!!!

Does the same apply to the team that hires Dubas?

I don't necessarily see anything really wrong with it, but the whole situation gets more bizarre as time passes.

Sergei Bobrovsky vs. Adin Hill is certainly the Cup final goalie duel we all predicted would happen.

I will say maybe the media is wrong and Shanahan's GM search won't essentially be "let's just call the last GM to get fired". Fingers crossed.

The Toronto media over sensatualizing something?  No chance.

Oh gawd...I don't know what it is about Treliving that he is garnering so much talk as the next GM of the team.  That would feel like a disappointment if he is indeed the one that is hired.

And as much as I was never a fan of Dubas, it is also the reason why I wouldn't have minded if was kept around.  I'm just not sure there are better candidates out there than what he brought to the team already.

I'm still trying to figure out what types of deal(s) Shanahan would have stepped in on and prevented Dubas from making, and I'm still unsure how/why it is now that we are all of a sudden hearing about these extra layers of hierarchy when trying to get stuff done.

There was never a whisper before about Dubas not having autonomy, and his actions never seemed to suggest otherwise either.

It is a little suspicious that the notion of presidency meddling occurred is coming out after the fact.  The Toronto media are always looking for something, and if there was a rift between Shanahan and Dubas as has been speculated the last couple of years, you would think something like that would have been leaked to the media well before these past few days (likely to Mirtle who seemingly Dubas has in his back pocket). 

The more I think of it, the more it seems like Dubas was scheming his way within the team.  His outrageous demands from the other day kind of telling.  And if indeed that is being so, I'm glad Shanahan punted his ass.