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Mark Hunter is gone, is this a management failure of the Leafs?

Oh man, I'm so here for the incoming "THE BOY KING HAS NOW COST US MARK HUNTER WHO'S NEXT, BABCOCK?!" takes

— Greg Wyshynski (@wyshynski) May 22, 2018

Greg Wyshynski isn’t so much mocking hot takes as he’s launching a preemptive anti-take that’s still steaming hot. Both the idea that Kyle Dubas’s age has hidden costs because old people are too thin-skinned to work for him, and the contrary position that his age is irrelevant, are not very nuanced positions, to put it politely.

There is a real difference between a team that has just promoted Kyle Dubas, who has been groomed for the job, and a team that has just hired someone like Lou Lamoriello.