The Toronto Maple Leafs are broken.
The MLSE Board that runs the Toronto Maple Leafs clearly screwed up when they allowed Kyle Dubas to leave the organization rather than giving him Brendan Shanahan’s job.
Forced to make one of the easiest decisions in hockey history, the board choked and went with the current President.
He in turn hired a stooge who wouldn’t threaten his job, and that stooge in turn went with name-brand over analytics, and perception over reality.
For example, Treliving spoke about toughness, but all he did was add an enforcer and the skilled son of an enforcer because REAVES and DOMI headlines made it seem like this team was going to get tough.