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I think that's more or less it. I'm not naive enough to think NHL teams are taking firm political stances or anything but I do think they have a problem with players who create static.

Not terribly surprised Philly wanted to move on from Provorov.

Maybe it's just me but I thought that the sway Spezza would have had in the organization came from him actually having been on the team and had already developed relationships within the room as a mentor. I'm not sure you can just establish that by virtue of signing on some other ex-NHLer.

Good for him and everything but I don't think there's any doubt that if he was negotiating after actually coming off of a season of big time production vs. projecting to have had a season of big-ish production(and even then, a season of 64 points) he'd have done better for himself. I don't...

I do kind of have to cut you off there because that's where we kind of get into the stuff we don't actually know and has just been floated by various "insiders" who may or may not have agendas here. We don't know the specifics of what Dubas asked for money-wise or autonomy-wise and absent those...

With regards to the first thing there I'm not sure how deeper it's possible to get. In terms of things we know, or at least what people involved have actually said we have some pretty basic facts. The Leafs wanted Dubas to return. He didn't. The possible explanations we have for why they either...

I mean, it's not worth anyone tearing their hair out or anything but I don't think there's a lot of ways to look at this for the Leafs other than they seemingly let pettiness and/or frugality mean they didn't get their #1 choice to run the team and his replacement is a guy who's biggest career...

We don't know how he negotiated. We have a lot of speculation, and post a messy break-up many, many sports teams have been known to plant stories via friendly sources in order to make their decision seem less stupid than it does on the surface. What we do know is that Kyle Dubas was let go...

Wow. The Canadiens fired him too? Tough week for ol' Dubie.

Given that it's only seems to be read as bad optics by people who already seem determined to paint Dubas in a pretty bad light here I'm not sure I'd read much into that. Nearly all of the "This looks bad for Dubas stuff" seems to boil down to people not thinking that circumstances can change...

Good for him. i never got the sense he was someone to shrink from a challenge and I think Pittsburgh post-CrosKin will provide him with the opportunity to remake the organization in his image in a way that probably wasn't available in Toronto. As people have pointed out there's maybe 1 or at...

Pretty uninspiring if true.

I guess the explanation was that he became so convinced that Gene was behind Janice's death he sort of stopped caring about Barry but I agree that doesn't make sense. That said, I never really liked the Jim Moss character to begin with and him catching Barry in the first place just seems like it...

Exactly. What the people who constantly whine about this don't get is that one player signing a below market deal, or even lots of players, doesn't fundamentally change the market. Lots of guys got deals with higher AAVs than Crosby, FA defensemen will get higher deals than Makar...hell, San...

That would be a great term for the Leafs. You don't want to commit big money to years 32-35.

I'm tempted to say 12,500,001

Terrific. Good to know big decisions being made are about the strength of the hockey team.

McDavid's at 12.5, I'd give Matthews 13.

It's the only way for the Leafs to go the distance.

Sebastian Aho doesn't have the heart of a champion.