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Romeo_Foxtrot666
@Maple Leafs de Toronto
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Romeo_Foxtrot666
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Keith Pelley is just the latest suit who was brought in to maximize profits. He has no experience running a championship level hockey team. Our expectations should have and should continue to be very low on his ability to deliver what we want and deserve.
For all of Shanahan’s failures, at least he was a hockey guy. And a very respected one at that. Pelley is a business man. I’m sure he’ll make MLSE a ton of money but I’ll be surprised if they win a Cup with him running the show.
MLSE is and always has been trash.
« Fan engagement ». The fansebase is more upset with the franchise today than they were when he came in. Good job you jackass.
Not here to sell jerseys
Also fair was firing Brendan Shanahan..
Keith Pelley the type of guy to run a “recommend me the best GM for the toronto maple leafs in 2026” prompt through ChatGPT
Dubas’ fault. Marchment for Malgin? A 1st round (Seth Jarvis) pick to get rid of Marleau? Giving out NMC’s to everyone?
I don’t know anything about basketball or soccer but I do know Shanahan needed to go.
He screwed up by keeping Keefe, dumping Dubas, bringing in Treliving and walking Marner to UFA.
Maybe we need someone with a golf background that must have been the hiring criteria back when we got him. Let’s get a Darts guy this time.
Dude grew up in Etobicoke, probably grew up a Leafs fan (At this point probably was a Habs fan and is loving this) and see this. If I was in his position, heads would be rolling.
Stop buying tickets, stop buying jerseys, stop watching the games.
The only power we have is where we put our eyes and where we spend our money.
Until the Leafs do something to earn my attention, it will be elsewhere.
Ujiri was rumored to be making 15-20M
Shanny was rumored to be making 7-8M
Bill Manning was making ???
Raps and Leafs continue to sell out all their games and Pelley saved 20-30M a season
Always remember that Rogers cares more about the business results than the on ice / court product and it will make sense
Pelley is, and always was going to be, a financials guy.
He had experience with Rogers and was hand-picked to help boost the bottom line after Rogers became majority share owner.
It was a shift from the Leiweke-era of building championship teams (seen by the process of hiring specific team presidents like Shanny, Masai and Bill Manning). You can argue Shanny wasn’t the guy or should have been removed earlier, but there was a philosophy there of building front offices around a president and chasing championships.
And then Friisdahl kind of adopted and continued that belief without really adding his own stamp.
The new model moved away from that and is far more focused on running the teams as businesses. That’s not to say they don’t want to win championships. Obviously championship winning teams, in turn, make more money. But there’s a lot more risk aversion and a conservative approach to it, in the way a corporation operates.
I don’t even think you can blame Pelley for that – he’s doing the job he was hired for.
But it is disappointing nonetheless.
We need a fire Pelley chant going.
Somebody also needs to sacrifice themselves and throw a Keith Pelley jersey on the ice.