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The pitch deck is embedded here https://www.markerzone.com/news/index.php?no=33044 At the same time, there’s this in the history as well:

I expect a handful of wtf candidates to crop up in an exhaustive search. The interesting part is the interview being in Feb

Gonna start a conversation about how ready the team is to defend Willy’s honour, but shrug at Matthews’ getting Gudas’d.

Please be April Fools

This is sort of part and parcel with the front office changes required, but most of the conversation here is adjusting the on-ice group with tweaks (really, they still have good pieces who looked bad this year for a variety of reasons that are mostly not permanent).

Stuff to mull (or cry about) for the long weekend

He was asked pretty specifically where it went wrong, and gave his very-briefly informed observation, which amounted to a business leader asking his direct reports why they aren’t doing what the competition is doing successfully. To me, that read like an excuse that Treliving (or whoever) gave...

Of course he has no idea how to specifically get there; he's a CEO, not actually in Hockey Ops. The purpose of his presser was to acknowledge the delta between the current state and where they needed to be, and sketch out the levers he had control over: (re)establishing the organizational...

Hurray for going in this direction. Either way, this is what I was thinking, and the mega corporation MLSE/Rogers is also thinking similarly: An all-in-one person could be a bit cheaper in the aggregate, but honestly it's nearly impossible to get a technical savant that is ASLO politically...

But what about pucks in deep/60?

What the Montreal/Buffalo surprise remark tells me is that the front office was not competently analyzing their competition, or was reporting things incongruently up the chain (hence the pointed slant towards data-centric, evidence-based management going forward). That’s not really saying...

https://mapleleafshotstove.com/2026/03/31/keith-pelley-on-whether-the-leafs-should-tank-harder-than-they-are/ Scrum transcript

Doesn’t want to get in the weeds, but is way more up to date on prospects in the Atlantic than I am lol

https://mapleleafshotstove.com/2026/03/31/keith-pelley-on-the-maple-leafs-rebuild-vs-retool-question/ Transcript from MLHS

He’s a CEO; that’s his training. I agree he did come alive handling questions rather than reading the prepared script. He knows he’s not a hockey person and he mentioned in his role that he basically wants to set it up so that he doesn’t need to get involved. The Leafs needed his involvement...