That's what she said

Especially when there’s nothing to watch and listen to

1 hour 30 minutes to just over 2 is such a sweet spot for these guys.

Amen

He ain't got the stones

We've been mislead, and possibly bamboozled!

​@@dickbiggerjr3613I'm sure he does, but he doesn't need to do small time podcasts lol

Who

"Gentlemen, you had my curiosity, now you have my attention."

I don't think Dubas is gonna get the power he wants from the penguins. sullivan seems to have a lot of sway with FSG he won the power struggle with hextall and Burke which has only seemed to empower sullivan

​@QuazarCyclone99 in the FSG media availability, they said that coaching changes would be left up to the GM. Sullivan wasn't as responsible for the last few seasons as Hextall, but there should be no guarantee that he remains.

No one wants a bad gm like dubas. Are you joking??

Penguins: $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Dubas: Now you have my attention.

Yeah he dug his own grave with that comment. He probably regrets saying that.

Like seriously these guys can’t tell the difference between doing a good job and wanting to continue doing your job

​@@thetank5642 they're so far in the weeds man. The guy wasn't even that great at his job ffs. I feel for the new guy having to clean this mess up tbh.

I would agree if he never brought up how hard the job was on his family. What's changed with his family?

⁠@@needmorecowbell6895 it seemed like he wasn’t sure if his family could do it or not at the time, it wasn’t a done deal either way. If he wanted to go back to the leafs I’d assume that means the family decided they could handle it after the locker clean out press conference.

@@ellah6188 Well again, what changed for his family other than a counter offer by his agent? Dubas didn't take time off. He hasn't taken family leave. Because it feels like the wife and family are on board if you put a couple mil on that offer and get Shanny off my back. That happens with wives. If I told my wife I had to make a work move, she wouldn't be very happy about it. But if it comes with a raise and a new title, she may feel very different about it.

@@needmorecowbell6895 Nothing has changed with his family. He was deciding between Leafs or time off. Now he is deciding between try another team or time off.

@@Noordhof Except that's not the timeline. He emailed Shanahan to say that he wanted to be GM of the Leafs. So family problem went away. Why is it back?

Plus half the players on any given team are Canadians. It's a Canadian sport regardless of where the franchises cash their cheques.

I'm Canadian and I don't care about those teams.

@@JohnnyLREACTS K cool fine you're Canadian. But you're clearly not a hockey fan 😂

Insanely close but at the end of the day even hours after the games the shadow and echoes of the name Sergei Bobrovski still reign supreme in both arenas they tripped and let the leafs get one lucky win carolina ain't that lucky close does not always mean equal

​@Johnny L im canadian and i care alot about my favorite sport wheter my boys are in it or not (eliminated sadly 😅)

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yep

Yeah he over played his cards with Brendan shanahan of all people.

never trust jesse predictions :P

Channelling his inner Charles Barkley.

Played nhl 23 franchise mode too much 😂

incapable of having a good take all playoffs its hilarious

Love how he’s joking about his takes when he’s wrong but gives himself credit when he’s right

it kind of sounds like the "poor" Performance Center.

Oh god 😂😂

When Matthews does the Tavares to the leafs maybe they will understand better.

No, they will complain the refs did them dirty!

cry baby chesse

If the reports are to believed that he's been blocked from making certain moves and has been forced to make others, I can't say that I blame the guy for wanting the autonomy. Can't really execute your own vision with somebody over your shoulder constantly changing it.

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Very good points. LGB

I just read the stl post about this situation. It doesn't make sense for the Blues allow Toronto to talk to Army. It would leave a huge hole weeks before the biggest draft the Blues have seen in 15 years or so.

I couldn't agree more Brian. I can't see why any GM who's had a track record of success would want it based on the current structure

@Reed Miller Thats what Dubas has left up to speculation for us. Did he actually think this was the likely result? Did he feel the pressure he added make the board more likely to grant his wish of more control? The boys made a good point of how he basically presented a contract to his boss that mostly makes his boss not needed, thats a tough sell.

@@scallaghan61 "The boys made a good point of how he basically presented a contract to his boss that mostly makes his boss not needed, thats a tough sell." Remember that's complete speculation. It was in the form of an email from Dubas to Shanahan and neither of them have disclosed any of the contents of the contract.

i guess that's possible. We don't really know how involved Shanahan was on deals or proposed deals. The trade deadline deals had a Shanahan vibe to them, based on how he played back in the day...

@@michaelkirkpatrick7483 If the reports are true, Shanahan was behind the push to bring in Joe Thornton and Wayne Simmonds a couple of years ago to add a "veteran presence" to the fourth line. We all know how that went.

Bang on

While much is done face to face, it is customary to utilize emails for tracking purposes. Not uncommon at all! It’s the recorded written word that protects all parties.

I'm betting that it was the contents of the e-mail, rather than the presence of it that ended up being the last straw.

Leafs fans have such an inflated ego about everything. This team isn't some sexy job everyone wants. And this fan base is far from 'best in the league'.

both those morons need to go... Dubas is a weak-minded lack of killer instinct chooch.

That makes two of us! Good Luck on your move and the future

@@TheFlizash Same to you!

nice name ^_^

Definitely. I really hope they take this opportunity to fell as much as they can for draft picks, including retaining almost all the salary from the core. You could build a competitor within 3 years

They have clauses kicking in this off-season because you can't have one prior to accruing 7 full seasons of playing in the NHL. This wasn't some Dubas conspiracy to screw the team over, it was literally not allowed until this season for any of those players that have them kicking in on July 1.

@@dougstevenson1503 It's one of the reasons why I think they should liquidate the core. With so many contracts expiring, and with the core in prime "rental" territory, there's a _lot_ of contenders that would be willing to bet the farm (teams) for their services. To get the best return, retain most of their salary, so the Leafs can stay above the cap floor. With Tavares, threaten to sit him if he doesn't move. With so many picks and prospects, I feel the Leafs would be in an _excellent_ position to make a run in just 3 years, with a huge amount of cap space to add the veterans needed to push them over the top.

If you want to build a Stanley cup winner culture starts at the freaking top. Not sure I want to continue? What did Shanahan say when questioning Kyle about his commitment to the Leafs? More questions than answers. You don’t build a championship team without full buy in top to bottom. That’s a team culture issue. If you want wishy washy players and management that’s a bottom feeder mentality. If I am hearing players don’t know if they want to be here, do you think the Leafs will win the Stanly cup with those players? Give me players and management with a burning desire to win and do the job for the freaking Leafs.

Or that was omitted from the documentary on purpose to make you think he has autonomy. They're not gonna shoot a documentary and make the gm look like a pushover lol

Was that signing off on handing Tavares 11M? Or Matthews? Or Marner?

@@justawinddown I was wrong, it was actually from 2019 after they fired Babcock

Ahh yes the "I know what I like when I see it" line I always got from clients who actually had no idea wtf they were doing. But hey their check cleared so all is forgiven, right? haha

' Not promoting gambling habits BUT if your gonna gamble, gamble with US !! 😂

Initially I thought this, but then what about alcohol advertisement? Also very bad addiction potential and mental health implications

@@jaskiranbedi1 you make my point for me. There are vast limitations on advertising alcohol and tobacco.

Friedman has been on record saying there were big time rumours of Arizona sending a massive offersheet to Matthews if he went unsigned in the summer. Pretty much forced their hand to bend to him. But at the same time, 5 year deals for star players out of their ELC wasn't very uncommon at the time. Loads of superstars did the same thing. Could argue the NMC in the final year wasn't ideal though.

@Eamonn The problem isn't necessarily the 5 years, it's the combination of the term and cap hit. Teams who sign their stars to 4-6 years save money on the cap hit whereas Mathews and Marner got both.

He probably thinks “oh look I was wrong, which is a thing that happens because 99% of us have absolutely no idea what we’re talking about.”

Burke was fired with the rest of Pitts office was he not?

He seems like a big Doors fan so betting odds would place riders on the storm near the top

Lot of good candidates under 40, but Leafs seem determined to go with the recycled dinosaur club roster as their search base for a new GM.

If I'm hearing right, a tandem of Murray and Jim Benning seems to be on the table.

I think only Jesse has brains today, Adam and Steve in particular are way too emotional.

The Blackhawks cup teams

@@HunterDrone12 right. I can’t believe his name hasn’t come up.

hmmm... yeah... a name not being brought up at all... wonder why

I wasn't against Dubas coming in and being the GM, but I thought at the time, why wouldn't you wait and let Lou handle the contract situation and then ease Dubas into the job.

@@bradbradbury8561 right and I doubt Lou would have gone for Traverse, he’s probably want to spend the money else where. What could’ve should’ve been.

@@bradbradbury8561 yeah, lou was great at contracts... giving 37 year old patrick marleau a $6.2m x 3 contract was a great move. giving zaietzev $4.5m x *7 years* was also a great move! you're delusional if you think lou was a competent gm in the slightest.

@@derps8690 Clearly you don't know hockey, so tell me which one has a hall of fame career for his achievements in hockey again, Lou or Kyle who signed or traded for players like, Ceci at 4.5m Mrazek at 3.8m x 3yr "Couldn't stop a beach ball" Kerfoot 3.5m x 4yrs "although skilled, wouldn't be able to score on an open net even if the other team was in their locker room" Johansson 3.4m 4yrs "Traded and played so bad, he's got buried in the minors" Kapanen 3.2m x 3yr " Though he could fly on skates, continuously couldn't score so he got traded" Nick Ritchie 2.5m 2yr "Couldn't score, and lack of a physical game which was what he was brought in for" Matt Murray with a salary of 8m and a cap hit of 6.25m who wasn't even good to outplay your minor league 3rd string goalie. If the guy saw his name wrote on the starting lineup, it was enough to get him injured. What are you talking about? when your a GM is supposed to be working for the franchise and team, but by the look of some of these contracts it looks like Dubas never hung up his player agent hat, and was still working for the players, not the leafs. Dude you must be on some good stuff if you think any of that was good. Waa, waa, waa, Dubas got fired, tough, that's what's supposed to happen when you do a crappy job. Now let's just hope management remembers that when negotiating with the big three, and instead of giving them a raise for failure in the playoffs, and give them what they deserve. Matthew's wants to be the highest paid player in the league, lol ahhh No, better make that a, hell no. He's still not as good as Mcdavid who gets 12.5m or, Mackinnon who just signed an 12.6m x 8yrs and just last year won the cup, chipping in 13 goals along the way. Or even Leon who makes 8.5m. So his salary should be negotiated accordingly. Yes I agree that Leon is underpaid but Matthew's should not get more than McDavid or Mackinnon. Especially on a short term deal again. Out of the three that are up for an extension only Willie deserves a raise if he wants to stay, at 8.5m x 8yrs. "He could get more in free agency, and would deserve too if he wanted to go that route" Matthew's on a short term deal again 11m x 4yrs, or 12.75m x 8yrs on a long term deal. Definitely nothing more than that. Marner though he never reached 100 points yet in his career, he did get 99 and rested a couple game at the end of the season without complaining, to be fresh for the playoffs. So he is a 100 point player, who's one of the best defensive forwards in the league up for a selke, and 100 point guys like that get paid around 10m x 8yrs. "See Mark Stone" He's a 30 to 35 goals a year guy average. If he was a 40 goal guy, he'd be making 11.5m or more with how good his two way game is. Again buddy if your going to comment on hockey, you should at least watch it first.

@@bradbradbury8561 ahh yes, the typical "ummmm actually you don't know hockey bud" response from people who have absolutely no idea what they're talking about and have no other response. 1. kapanen and johnsson were signed by lou, not dubas, and in both cases dubas got assets for trading them, so if you think signing them was horrible then you should be praising dubas for getting rid of them and retaining assets. 2. kerfoot wasn't the original piece in that deal... the original piece was tyson barrie, and the reason barrie faltered was because mike babcock refused to utilize him properly... babcock... you know, the guy they're *still* paying $6m a year? yeah, that was also lou who did that. 3. matt murray, before he was injured this season, had a .926%. 2 games brought him down to .904%. he played stellar for the leafs and *would* have been their starting goalie in the playoffs had he not been taken out by raymond near the end of the season, so we're not going to say that was a bad move. he even got a pick out of that trade too, so yet again, he retained assets. i'm not even going to address the rest of what you said because a: it's long, useless garbage and b: it has no bearing on the fact that lou was a terrible gm, which was the original point. just take a look at the islanders and the devils and see how badly lou drove those teams into the ground. never insult my knowledge of hockey again... we all make choices in life, and you made a bad one. continue to make bad choices, and i can't guarantee that life will be easy for you... nor can i guarantee your ability to continue living it.