The Maple Leafs have spent the summer hiring and promoting existing staff. Most of their efforts have gone into re-making the scouting department:
The @MapleLeafs announced today the promotion of Tim Speltz to Head Amateur Scout and the hiring of Scott Bell as Area Scout based in Minnesota.
— Leafs PR (@LeafsPR) August 2, 2018
Tim Speltz was hired in 2016, and he used to be Mike Babcock’s boss back in the day. It seemed like something to do instead of run the Spokane Chiefs, which he’d been doing since 1990.