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Leafs Front Office 2026-27

You'd think that maybe the leafs learned their lesson when they hired a GM who's former team refused to deal with him - so why not up the ante and go for a GM that the league has issues with. It's not like the league is always looking at the leafs with extra scrutiny. Genius potential hiring.
 
I suspect we'll see an announcement this weekend. First round is just about finished, there's potentially not even any games on Saturday. They'll probably want Sundin at the draft lottery on Tuesday.
 
Ok, what I'm hearing is that MLSE hired a firm to help search for a new POHO/GM and the firm suggested two people who have been out of the NHL for more than 5 years?
 
dappleganger said:
Ok, what I'm hearing is that MLSE hired a firm to help search for a new POHO/GM and the firm suggested two people who have been out of the NHL for more than 5 years?
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Technically, they would have vetted many candidates and shortlisted a group to interview (some names have come out who are firmly in and around the executive space of the NHL); the choice to finalize is on the hiring party's decision making.

Sundin (and Gillis), by all accounts so far, is outside of the scope of the search firm's hiring process. Judging by the timing of Pelley's first contact with Gillis, I suspect Pelley was preparing to hire someone to oversee Treliving and Co., but then saw what happened at the deadline and pivoted to firing the GM outright.
 
herman said:
Sundin (and Gillis), by all accounts so far, is outside of the scope of the search firm's hiring process. Judging by the timing of Pelley's first contact with Gillis, I suspect Pelley was preparing to hire someone to oversee Treliving and Co., but then saw what happened at the deadline and pivoted to firing the GM outright.
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Actually now that you mention it there was a report that said Chayka interviewed with the Leafs for something back in February too. I didn't think much of it at first because of the source but here we are.
 
It's absolutely mind blowing the Leafs would be hiring two people to run the team who've been out of the NHL in any capacity for more than half a decade.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
Actually now that you mention it there was a report that said Chayka interviewed with the Leafs for something back in February too. I didn't think much of it at first because of the source but here we are.
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Pelley mentioned he talked to people inside the org and hockey people outside the org for their feedback on the state of the Leafs, which to me, sounds like he was already interviewing people for Shanahan's vacated position after Treliving probably noted that he was not able to handle the combined workload.
 
herman said:
Pelley mentioned he talked to people inside the org and hockey people outside the org for their feedback on the state of the Leafs, which to me, sounds like he was already interviewing people for Shanahan's vacated position after Treliving probably noted that he was not able to handle the combined workload.
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Yeah and that's fine but I do think it's worth bringing up the "what would say you do here" question to the probably very expensive search firm if the two leading candidates didn't really come from them and the interviews are being led by Pelley and Teherany.
 
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