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Yeah, I think there's the instinct to think that if they want to move on from Dubas that means that they want someone who will do things significantly differently than Dubas which can strike a lot of people as not great if they generally think Dubas did a pretty good job here. Now, of course...

I think the "handwringing" about this boils down to three key points: 1. After yet another tough beat in the playoffs this can read, the Leafs not getting their #1 choice to run the club, like another moral defeat. 2. There are people with concerns, as yet unfounded but with a fair argument...

I'm sure Dubas had many different thoughts about the Job and the organization throughout his years on the job and that it too informed how he went about his side of the negotiations. But it's also reasonable to think that two key things happened that would greatly affect how Dubas might have...

Admittedly I cant claim to be particularly familiar with fans of every sport in the world but there is a particular sort of hockey fan that, to my experience anyway, is fairly unique. The sort who seems very interested in proclaiming that the athletes in their favourite sport are tougher than...

A) I didn't say I was surprised and B) this isn't specific to what Dubas said. Dubas taking stock of the season as a whole and how it informs what he wanted from the job going forward would make sense regardless of what he said and, contrary to what has been stated by some, isn't a sign of...

Alright, now you're selling me on firing him again.

This just keeps getting dumber and dumber.

Yeah, that makes sense. I cannot for the life of me understand why anyone would over think "The end to the season made Dubas re-evaluate what he felt he needed professionally to progress with the Leafs and the Leafs/Shanahan apparently balked at what he wanted".

I mean, I just don't really think a mediocre team winning by virtue of really good goaltending makes for compelling viewing if I'm not a fan of the team. Good players, goals...those are still selling points.

It's just another example of how the fanbase creates problems for itself. Fans pay way too much attention to clean out the locker room day so if something is said that upsets them it's attached significance because they care so much about clean out the locker room day. Why would anyone care what...

Seriously. This is just such an overblown Only-In-Toronto sort of issue. Dubas, being interviewed after another very disappointing playoff exit, says something pretty mild about the effect the job is having on him and people are acting like he went out like Scarface in Half-Baked.

Yeah, so as Herman has already posted there were whispers that there was some disagreement as to decision making authority prior to the relationship dissolving (Post #182) so this isn't strictly speaking true. But more to the point, I'm still not seeing where so many people are apparently...

If it ends up that he does make that decision and he resigns, I'd care about that. But if he says he's "thinking" about something during a press conference during the off-season? No. I very much don't care about that. To me, as a fan, if he's genuinely thinking that I'd rather know it than not...

Clearly Bobrovsky just has that playoff edge. He digs down inside and finds the gritty toughness needed to make saves in the playoffs. He's not soft like other goalies. He brings it in the playoffs because he's a manly man man man. Except for other years. But now! Pure gravel in his veins.

I'm trying to think of something I could possibly care less about as a fan than whether or not our GM had fully mastered the art of saying absolutely nothing honest or interesting during a press conference.

What's great is that there's going to be absolutely no reflection from the people who thought the Leafs struggling to score against Florida was evidence of a deep character flaw.

That is sad. Rome is one of those often overlooked great works of the Peak TV era and he was as big a part of it as anyone.

That strikes me as being slightly more realistic and managed than the suggestion that there were people who were saying Dubas should have been able to do whatever he wanted whenever he wanted without any budget from day 1 on the job, up to and including trading Matthews for nothing. That just...

Is anyone saying that?

Is anyone really saying that things are bad because Spezza resigned? Or are people saying Spezza resigning is a sign that things are bad and the decision to move on from Dubas will probably have deeper consequences for the club then just whether or not he's the best talent evaluator or whatever.