2026-27 Toronto Maple Leafs General Discussion | Official: Sundin & Chayka to lead front office

[Kaberle15]

This is a direct Mats Sundin influence. Has to be.

Well. Sundin's Leafs always had Alfredsson's Sens number... easy call

 

[cw]

I am cheering for Sullivan to take over the Marlies.

Gruden did a heck of a job with them.

So did Mark Giordano. Hope he is sticking around

 

[L K]

So did Mark Giordano. Hope he is sticking around

I hope he gets a promotion. Seems like he got the coaching bug being with the team and Gio seems like a guy who doesn't know how to be away from the arena

 

[princedpw]

This is the weirdest thing ever. Do I need to boo our assistant coach? How is this supposed to work?

 

[cw]

I hope he gets a promotion. Seems like he got the coaching bug being with the team and Gio seems like a guy who doesn't know how to be away from the arena

GFA in the regular season & playoffs for the Marlies was close to the same.
PP jumped from 16.8% in the regular season to 22.4%. Lettirei was in on nearly half the PP goals. Shaw racked up PP pts too. Giordano took the PP over when Sullivan left for the NHL.

The Marlies goalies (mainly Akhtyamov) bore the 80+% of GAA statistical improvement - though the team D helped reduce quality scoring chances to help those stats.

The balance of the GAA improvement came from the skaters. Between the forwards and dmen, I thought the dmen were much steadier defensively. Thrun, Rifai, Benning & Mernis all contributed to help the younger dmen.

Some credit there belongs to Giordano. He's a good man.

 

[herman]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2074548974862630955

 

[herman]

They brought a film crew on that trip so it was basically just double checking there weren’t any red flags.

 

[Guru Tugginmypuddah]

They brought a film crew on that trip so it was basically just double checking there weren’t any red flags.

At 5:20 in the video, Gavin says, "I have some buddies coming up this summer after I'm done in Toronto there".

 

[herman]

At 5:20 in the video, Gavin says, "I have some buddies coming up this summer after I'm done in Toronto there".

I understood that to be a reference to the post-combine thing Toronto invites a dozen or so players to every season. In any case, I think player and team both felt the fit immediately and were basically making honeymoon plans without exactly saying it out loud.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

They brought a film crew on that trip so it was basically just double checking there weren’t any red flags.

The league is feverishly scanning this video for any violations Chayka may have made.

 

[Guru Tugginmypuddah]

I understood that to be a reference to the post-combine thing Toronto invites a dozen or so players to every season. In any case, I think player and team both felt the fit immediately and were basically making honeymoon plans without exactly saying it out loud.

When Gavin is sitting on the draft floor chesterfield, he has his hand on his phone laying on the chesterfield cushion. Also, Gavin mentioned in one of the interviews (another video) that he knew that Bieber was going to be there.