The deal keeps the Toronto Maple Leafs top dawg in charge until the 2024-25 season, minimum.
This is fantastic news for the Leafs and their fans.
It provides continuity and it shows that everyone in the organization is behind what the Leafs are doing. Considering what they are doing is bordering on revolutionary, and that the NHL is an extremely conservative league, and that the Leafs are its most valuable and important franchise, this is an important development.
It wouldn’t be the first time in history that a team tried something new, didn’t meet with immediate success, and then changed course before really seeing if what they did was going to work.