The announcement of new leadership in Toronto and Pittsburgh should have been simple, until Brendan Shanahan and Dubas went off script
Instead of announcing new president Kyle Dubas a half-hour before the Maple Leafs brought out their replacement general manager, the Pittsburgh Penguins could have timed it to coincide with Brad Treliving’s opening remarks in Toronto.
Shanahan doesn’t believe that because no one with any sense could. He just doesn’t want this fight to get even more petty. Too late. If Shanahan doesn’t want it catty, he shouldn’t have pulled out his claws first. The real question is why a smart guy – people around hockey are always telling us how smart Dubas is – would fence himself in so definitively? He must have known there was a real chance he would come out of it looking foolish.
Whatever the case, Dubas has done the Leafs a service. It’s been a while since the local hockey team had a proper enemy. And no, the Battle of Ontario – a name that makes you think of musketry and nodding off in Grade 7 history – does not count. This new grudge has real possibilities.It’s the fact that rookie Matthew Knies gets judo-flipped into the end boards during the playoffs and everyone on the Leafs bench goes, ‘I guess that’s fine.
Toronto keeps trying to inject culture into the team like a vaccine. Maybe Mark Giordano carries the culture gene. Or Ryan O’Reilly. Or Luke Schenn. More often than not, newcomers don’t infect the Leafs. The Leafs infect them. What’s the fuel for the Leafs’ rage? Do they have any of that resource? Because if they do, nobody’s ever seen it. The Leafs are always fine. Win? That feels fine. Lose? That feels fine, too. Lose calamitously? Can’t wait to hit the beach.
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