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Leafs Front Office 2026-27

Bill_Berg said:
Fair enough, but then don't opine on not seeing the train coming and start talking about other teams.
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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 when explaining the performance gap to Pelley in earlier discussions/check-ins.

He also said the matter of how the team will achieve the overall goal of succeeding is going to be decided by the Head of Hockey Ops, so I don’t really have anything to judge until the hire is made and a plan is outlined.
 
Bill_Berg said:
It makes no sense. He named young players on Montreal and Buffalo. If he wants to retool, it's not going to be with young players, it will be with middling, expensive free agents.

Matthews may or may not rebound to MVP calibre, but where is his support coming from even if he does? If that support dosen't come for a couple more years, will he still be MVP calibre then? Sell high!
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Yes because Buffalo did it so well and so quick...
 
herman said:
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 structure that had imploded under Treliving/Berube(/Shanahan) and hiring someone who knows what they're doing in this space.

There is no sense in judging his hockey accumen, or even holding his words to that standard. Pelley said up front he is not trying to get involved, but he is currently involved because the existing direction no longer aligned with the vision for sustainable success.
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Fair enough, but it was a lot of execuspeak fluff. And it's hard not to be critical considering all of his comments in aggregate since he's been hired. There's talk that they were considering giving Tre an extension as recently as the Olympic break. What he has said and how he's handled things so far does not inspire confidence.
 
herman said:
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 when explaining the performance gap to Pelley in earlier discussions/check-ins.

He also said the matter of how the team will achieve the overall goal of succeeding is going to be decided by the Head of Hockey Ops, so I don’t really have anything to judge until the hire is made and a plan is outlined.
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Nobody is saying let's judge Pelley completely yet. But he's the guy who's allowed this all to transpire. I think people are right to be skeptical and nervous. The Chayka news makes me want to hurl.
 
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