The Hockey Show: Were The Maple Leafs And Marner Better With Each Other?
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What front office changes are happening with the Toronto Maple Leafs?
We are ending the regular season with a bang. We've got some front office shakeups, and we've got Allison Lucan to talk about the Seattle Kraken's playoff hopes.
This is the Hockey Show.
David Drucker, the Hockey News. We have Rose and Ethan. My name is Roy Bellamy. This is the Hockey Show. Let's start off with the Toronto Maple Leafs. A couple of teams, actually, in this league, as well as Vegas, have had some front office shakeups. We're starting with the Maple Leafs here as they fired their general manager, Brad Treeliving. Only three years on the job in Toronto. Not a lot of time. And the Leafs are going to miss the playoffs. They've looked bad this season. And the future of head coach Craig Berube is up in the air. It's going to be decided by the new general manager. I just don't see Berube staying with the team. Do you?
No, probably not. You would imagine in new regimes, they don't want to pick their guys. And it's been a big shit show in Toronto. Even going back to when they hired Free Living out of Calgary. What was that? The Matthew Tkachuk trade for Jonathan Huberto, which didn't really sit very well right off the bat. So it was questionable off the start. And now you just have to look at Keith Pelley, who's in charge of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment up in Toronto, and say, what are you doing? The decisions made have just been not good. That franchise has put itself backwards. And now, like, you know, you've got media asking William Nylander, do you want to stick around for another rebuild? It's just a really bad situation for a team that up until this year, I think it made the playoffs nine straight seasons.
Yeah, I think that this year has shown, if anything, that Mitch Marner and Toronto were better off with each other. And we'll talk about the other team on the other side of this deal who finds themselves in a precarious situation here in Vegas in a minute. But it's pretty clear, especially in Toronto, that they were better off with Mitch Marner whether they thought they had enough to get over the hump or not. The problem was clearly not Mitch Marner. It was probably some of their depth that has shown that it's not good enough to win a Stanley Cup. And they tried to kind of replace him in the aggregate like they do in Moneyball, and it failed miserably because Michele's been a flop, and some of these other signings have not worked out very well at all.
So Toronto, a big mess right there. And yeah, they miss Mitch Marner on a 100-point player a lot. Is Austin Matthews staying?
No.
God, that's a great question. I think it's really going to depend how the next year and a half play out in Toronto. Like, what exactly are they going to do? It seems like that's a city that chases away their stars, especially lately. You know, credit to John Tavares. He went there from the island and he's done a really good job of just being their guy and really stepping up this season. He's having an amazing year. But yeah, I don't know, man. If I'm Austin Matthews, like, do I want to subject myself to another seven, eight years potentially of that? That's a tough question.
I doubt he does. I don't think he does. I think he's going to want to get out and try and go win a Stanley Cup and be successful elsewhere. All he's ever known is success, really, in terms of making the playoffs. So it'll be really interesting to see what happens with him and what happens with William Nylander as well, because I think both of those guys will be saying, well, we got this close here in Toronto. Now we're this far away. So where can I go to be this close again to try and win that elusive Stanley Cup? I think both of them very possibly could be, although Nylander just signed a big extension a few years ago. I think Matthews, you know, he's on that McDavid timeline as well, where I think he's got another two years.
It looks precarious, especially with all the Olympic stuff. It seems like they were really mad at him after the Olympics. He wins a gold medal as the captain for Team USA.
That's such a silly thing.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What front office changes are happening with the Toronto Maple Leafs?
0:00–5:29
2
Was the breakup between the Maple Leafs and Mitch Marner a mistake?
5:29–8:46
3
What are the implications of Auston Matthews potentially leaving Toronto?
8:46–10:33
4
How are the Seattle Kraken's playoff chances looking?
10:33–15:55
5
What challenges does the Seattle Torrent face in their first PWHL season?
15:55–49:21
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