It looks as if Toronto Maple Leafs’ hockey followers have been watching a true-life cleaning soap opera for the previous few weeks. First, there was the breakup of Brendan Shanahan and Kyle Dubas. Then there was the “in depth” seek for a brand new normal supervisor (GM) that began with Brad Treliving and ended with, properly, Brad Treliving. Subsequent, the Pittsburgh Penguins jumped into the image with their courtship of Dubas.
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When the entire smoke had cleared, Treliving was introduced as the brand new normal supervisor of the Maple Leafs and Dubas was launched as the brand new president of the Penguins, all inside an hour of one another. It sort of makes us marvel if this all actually occurred this quick. The conspiracy theorist in us needs to marvel if this was within the works behind the scenes for longer than we’re conscious of.
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Till somebody writes their memoirs, we’ll by no means know what actually transpired. We do know that the Maple Leafs have a brand new GM and the Penguins have a brand new President of Hockey Operations. The tip consequence could possibly be a win-win for everybody concerned.
Brad Treliving Will get a Massive, however Powerful Process
Treliving is now the GM of the most important, and richest NHL franchise in Canada. He takes over a workforce that’s massively proficient and is likely one of the strongest groups within the league. Nonetheless, he additionally takes over a workforce that has didn’t have success within the postseason. He will get the problem of seeing if he can push the workforce to the subsequent stage.
The Maple Leafs Get a New Face
The Maple Leafs get a brand new face close to the highest of the group. They get somebody who can take a contemporary take a look at the workforce with out carrying the luggage of their previous failures. He might need failures of his personal, however they don’t seem to be right here in Toronto.
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With the absence of these previous failures, all Treliving can do is stay up for the longer term. He can break down the essential parts of this workforce because it presently exists and construct it up from there. Treliving is beginning with a workforce that has a powerful core who, except for captain John Tavares, are in or getting into their prime.
Kyle Dubas Will get One other Likelihood with Extra Energy and Autonomy
Dubas not solely will get a reset on the way to construct a workforce utilizing his imaginative and prescient, however he additionally will get to go away the entire baggage of his previous failures behind him. He additionally will get a contemporary begin. Dubas will get the job he most definitely coveted in Toronto. As the president of your complete operation, he guidelines the roost.
He does go into a troublesome state of affairs with a workforce that’s in transition. The core items are nearing the top of their careers. Dubas could have the duty of evaluating their effectiveness as their talents wane. On the identical time, he should work out the way to transition this workforce previous Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, and Kris Letang.
Making issues occur in Pittsburgh might be a singular problem for Dubas, however one by which he ought to have some leeway. He’ll even be with out the stress to essentially win now he had with the Maple Leafs.
The Penguins Get an Clever Hockey Thoughts
The Penguins get an especially sensible and clever hockey thoughts in Dubas to run their hockey operations. He builds shut relationships with people who work underneath him, together with the gamers. Dubas will take the workforce in a extra analytical course. He may even deliver with him what he realized from working inside a first-class group just like the Maple Leafs.
We, as followers for each groups, get a brand new rivalry. The place Treliving takes the Maple Leafs and Dubas takes the Penguins might be entwined. Each groups might be out to show themselves every time the 2 meet. Let the enjoyable start.
[Note: I want to thank long-time Maple Leafs’ fan Stan Smith for collaborating with me on this post. Stan’s Facebook profile can be found here.]
