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2025-26 Toronto Maple Leafs General Discussion

Joe S. said:
The problem is you're not going to get a quality gm mid season. I want Treliving gone too, but realistically someone internal would fill the position until the off season.
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Well we saw with Nonis that selling off assets isn't super hard. It's the building things up thing that is a challenge. If the mandate is get the best possible deals for any player not named Matthews, Nylander, Tavares or Knies, then that's pretty straightforward.

I'd be contacting Dallas about Domi. They need to try and keep up with the Wild and Avalanche.
 
rdowdall said:
Well we saw with Nonis that selling off assets isn't super hard. It's the building things up thing that is a challenge. If the mandate is get the best possible deals for any player not named Matthews, Nylander, Tavares or Knies, then that's pretty straightforward.

I'd be contacting Dallas about Domi. They need to try and keep up with the Wild and Avalanche.
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Yeah I'm not against that at all. I'm just saying that'll likely be Pridham until they finish begging Zito to come to the leafs... Which he won't.

To be honest, nonis actually did ok with the selloff. Then Fletcher went all old man Simpson on the franchise.
 
Joe S. said:
Just a random thought here but almost every gm the leafs have had since McNamara never got another NHL gm position, other than Fletcher, Lamoriello and Dubas. I didn't double check this though.

And I'm pretty sure this will be Treliving's last NHL gm job.
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Probably a good bet.

I have no idea where the Leafs go from here with regards to leadership. They need a hockey guy as president, that much is obvious, and then let him hire a GM, hopefully someone up and coming who is astute at identifying talent in the draft. Seems like they need a full on reset here. I'm not even sure they can re-tool with this team.
 
Zee said:
Probably a good bet.

I have no idea where the Leafs go from here with regards to leadership. They need a hockey guy as president, that much is obvious, and then let him hire a GM, hopefully someone up and coming who is astute at identifying talent in the draft. Seems like they need a full on reset here. I'm not even sure they can re-tool with this team.
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I don't think there will be a hockey president. I think the idea is that Pelley is wearing three hats, and then the GM's for the Leafs, Raptors, and Toronto FC report into him. I don't agree with it because I think there is enough work there for three people, but Rogers and MLSE don't see it that way. I guess they think that AI will get them the other 2/3rds of the way there.

However, they just needs to start with a competent GM. Treliving hasn't done a great job here in Toronto, and when you combine that with what he has done in Calgary, well it isn't a great looking body of work. Maybe he was just biding his time until he takes over the Boston Pizza empire, and this seemed like a cool thing to do. Who knows?
 
Joe S. said:
Yeah I'm not against that at all. I'm just saying that'll likely be Pridham until they finish begging Zito to come to the leafs... Which he won't.

To be honest, nonis actually did ok with the selloff. Then Fletcher went all old man Simpson on the franchise.
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Nonis was just before Dubas, if I recall correctly, and then they hired Lou Lam because they thought Dubas was going to make mistakes. I'm pretty sure it was Dubas though that did the Kessel deal to Pittsburgh, which wasn't bad all things considered.
 
rdowdall said:
Nonis was just before Dubas, if I recall correctly, and then they hired Lou Lam because they thought Dubas was going to make mistakes. I'm pretty sure it was Dubas though that did the Kessel deal to Pittsburgh, which wasn't bad all things considered.
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I'm pretty sure it was Nonis-Lamoriello-dubas.

Fletcher was after JFJ I think so I got that timeline wrong.
 
Joe S. said:
I'm pretty sure it was Nonis-Lamoriello-dubas.

Fletcher was after JFJ I think so I got that timeline wrong.
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I looked it up, just to see if I was remembering it correctly. Nonis was fired on April 12th, 2015. The Kessel deal was completed on July 1st 2015, and Lou became GM on July 23rd, 2015. Dubas and Mark Hunter were joint GM's of the Maple Leafs from the time that Nonis was fired up until Lou was hired, so they made the Kessel deal.
 
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