AROUND THE LEAGUE - 25-26

[Cousin Strawberry]

Detroit out of the playoffs 10 years running.

Yzerman 0 for 7 playoffs as Wing GM.

How much rope does a Dude get?

How much rope did THE dude get?

[donlever]

So you're saying Stevie hasn't hung himself quite yet?

[Cousin Strawberry]

Yzerman probably pokes and prods at McLellan like chef did with Blob

[Hockey Widow]

I wonder how Bo feels tonight? Anything he wants to tell us for free?

[donlever]

He could tell us it's the first time in league history that all 3 Tri-State teams have missed the playoffs in the same year.

[Hockey Widow]

And to think that 2 ex-Canuck captains are part of it!!

[Meds]

And to think that 2 ex-Canuck captains are part of it!!

I get the payback is a bitch factor.....but what did New Jersey ever do to us?

[Carl Yagro]

I get the payback is a bitch factor.....but what did New Jersey ever do to us?

Blood relations with a 3rd ex-Canuck captain?

[donlever]

Lost to the Rangers in the '94 ECF.

[Carl Yagro]

Local boy takes club record for points in season from a Jumbo legend... in only his second year in the league.

If only the local team was lucky to be as good...

[Todd Bersnoozi]

I know alot of fans want Foote Job gone, I introduce to u his replacement.

Nucks mgmt & ownership luv to hire the ladies in important roles, why not be the first to hire a female NHL Head Coach? She can "motivate" players like no other dood Head Coach can. What happens in the locker room, stays int he locker room. And hey, EP40 luvs his blondes, she would be the seceret recipe to get him back to his A game.

The doods here would luv her. More doods will go the games. They can introduce her in a press conference wearing a Nuck's jersey over some sexy underwear just for Donny.

[donlever]

Appreciate that 'Snooz.

[Megaterio Llamas]

^^^LOL Snoozer.

It sounds like the leaves have settled on Mats Sundin and John Chayka.

Maple leaves on verge of hiring Mats Sundin, John Chayka to lead front office

Mats Sundin is a Toronto Maple Leaf once again.

The Maple leaves are expected to hold a media conference on Monday to announce the hiring of the franchise legend and John Chayka to join their front office, Sportsnet confirmed on Saturday. The media conference is likely to be Monday but not 100 per cent confirmed.

Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman reported previously that the leaves were interested in hiring Sundin as vice president of hockey operations and Chayka as general manager.

Sundin, 55, has never held an NHL front-office role previously.

The Maple leaves icon and Hockey Hall of Famer is the franchise's all-time leader in points and game-winning goals. He played 981 games for the team over 13 seasons between 1994 and 2008.

Chayka, 36, was the youngest GM in NHL history when he took the reins of the Coyotes in 2016 at 26 years old.

He spent four seasons with the club, leading it to one playoff berth, before resigning in 2020. He was suspended from the NHL for the 2021 calendar year after pursuing job opportunities with other teams without permission from Arizona.

Now, five years later, he is headed to the Maple leaves alongside Sundin to help lead a team coming off its first missed playoffs in a decade and facing urgency with only two years left on captain Auston Matthews' contract.

The Maple leaves fired general manager Brad Treliving in March en route to finishing fifth-to-last in the NHL standings.

However, Toronto could be without a first-round pick in June’s draft, as it will fork it over to the Boston Bruins if it lands outside the top five thanks to the deal that brought Brandon Carlo to the Maple leaves at the 2025 trade deadline.

The Maple leaves also have a couple pending restricted free agents in forwards Nick Robertson and Matias Maccelli. However, most of their core is signed through next season and they are projected to have over $22 million in cap space, per PuckPedia.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/ma ... nt-office/

[Topper]

From X

Imagine having to excuse all of Bowman’s gross actions in Chicago in order to see this Nepo Baby GM run a team with McDavid and Draisaitl into mediocrity.

[BCExpat]

From X

Imagine having to excuse all of Bowman’s gross actions in Chicago in order to see this Nepo Baby GM run a team with McDavid and Draisaitl into mediocrity.

Truer words have never been spoken