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Leafs Front Office 2026-27

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 anything about Pelley other than how much attention he was paying to the Leafs initially (1st in the Div last season).

The other thing it tells me about Pelley is that he has identified some benchmarks and models of team turnarounds the Leafs ought to at least aim in the general direction of: younger, faster, and a system of play attuned to maximizing the pieces they currently have.

Given their lack of high picks at the moment, It’s a retool until Auston Matthews says otherwise.
 
As I feared, they will flounder for a couple years before doing it right and by then they'll be stuck in a long rebuild. Go Jays!
 
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