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Chayka said there were 55 people either spoken to or reached out to in the preliminary stage. I'd imagine these were just brief introductory conversations to see if there was any mutual interest in the position. From there the first stage of actual interviews consisted of about 20 people.

Unsurprisingly it's: Florida, Vegas, Minnesota. Please Bill Guerin, you're our only hope!

"I could tell you all the other interesting names too, but I've only been pre-approved to name just this one!"

He has ones with Reid and Stenberg too. Ryan didn't reweet those from the main Leafs account though if you want to go down the rabbit hole there.

There's no doubt he would have made them significantly better but filling that 2C spot should be their biggest goal and using most of their trade chips on something else before doing that seems unwise.

As glad as I am that trade didn't go through, I'm also not really sure why Montreal would have used that many chips on a winger. If they can pick up a Larkin or Hischier instead this summer then the Habs might be thankful for Treliving bungling it too.

Woah woah woah, this kind of sounds like physical testing to me...

Zharovsky was ranked 17th in the Athletic's top drafted prospects list this past April, so he's probably better than most Leafs fan would think (I assume a lot of us would basically have never heard of him before, because I didn't really). Still, that plus two mid/late 1st round picks seems...

I'm still on Team Woodcroft, but of the more super experienced/recycled head coaches Laviolette would probably be at the top of my list. Roy, yeah no.

Go easy on them, they're just the second best refs in the world.

I'm super conflicted about what to do with Rielly. You trade him and the team needs to find 3 puck-moving defencemen instead of adding just 2 like I think they need to now. But there's no denying he's had two rough years that would seem to indicate a move is necessary. Is a coach all that's...

Honestly I am very curious to why that's the only NHL team he follows but for whatever it's worth that wasn't a recent follow. I remember someone pointing it out well before all the chatter happened.

I meant to add that by all accounts the initial meeting Berube had with Chayka/Sundin reportedly went so well that people didn't think the firing was going to happen, so that note probably shouldn't mean too much. But it's a Rogers employee in Friedman confirming that a meeting did in fact happen.

Per Friedman they did interviews with 15 candidates via zoom, and hey they can't all be winners at that number. I'd be more worried if we find out that he makes the cut for the next round of interviews.

I think people are pushing the "leaks we don't like are actually fake news" idea a little too hard lately honestly. Speaking of...

Yeah I used to push Boudreau hard as Leafs coach but at his age and not coaching for the past 3 seasons I think that ship has sailed.

He wanted full control, which never happened with the Avs and likely wasn't ever going to happen anytime in the near or even distant future with Sakic above him. I would guess even his initial promotion to GM 4 years ago was mostly just a salary/title bump than anything in order to keep other...

Tough to take Frank's word over Friedman's, but in this case I hope he's right.