The Toronto Maple Leafs announced today that Brandon Pridham, formerly Assistant to the General Manager, is being promoted to Assistant General Manager. The press release is here.
While the easy joke is that only in Toronto is it a story when a hockey executive loses a preposition, the move is significant. The Leafs previously had Kyle Dubas and Mark Hunter as their Assistant General Managers under Lou Lamoriello; Dubas moved up, Hunter and Lou moved out, and now Pridham has risen in rank.
Pridham is the Leafs Collective Bargaining Agreement specialist; he helped draft the CBA that came out of the 2012 lockout, before joining the Leafs in August 2014.