On May 11, 2018, Kyle Dubas was named General Manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs, replacing incumbent Lou Lamoriello and beating out fellow Assistant GM Mark Hunter. The promotion was very popular in the nerdier quarter of Leafs fandom; Dubas is a very smart, very well-spoken executive who seems to embody the progressive hockey mind.
We’re coming up on one year of Kyle Dubas officially being in charge, and it seems like a good time to take stock of how things have been going. (I did this with Lou Lamoriello’s whole tenure here, if you want to read that.