Now, out of respect, you might have read that the Toronto Maple Leafs and Lou Lamoriello “mutually agreed to part ways,” and that “this was the plan all along.
Now, I don’t dispute that that was the plan. But Lou Lamoriello is already being linked to the Islanders, and it seems that just about no one is buying the line about him being an ‘advisor.’ He didn’t sound like a very enthusiastic team member in his interview yesterday, so it seems like a firing to me. Does anyone really think that if the Leafs made a bigger splash at the deadline and won a round in the Playoffs that they’d be getting a new GM today?