TSN: Brendan Shanahan named President of Toronto Maple Leafs

[Cor]

@TorontoStar: #breaking #Leafs #nhl Brendan Shanahan to be named president of the Maple Leafs, Damien Cox reports. http://t.co/FdZe1NXDip

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=448947

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[Cor]

@FAN590: According to @DamoSpin, Brendan Shanahan will join the Maple #Leafs organization immediately after resigning his position with the NHL.

 

[RASHBEEP]

megaton

 

[GordieHoweHatTrick]

Cool, I guess. As long as he and Leiweke are on the same page.

 

[samwitch]

Woooooooooooah. Talking about it on Sportsnet now.

 

[Bardown warrior]

Greg Brady ‏@bradyfan590 5m
On Shanahan, either a 5 or 6 year agreement. League source says Shanahan will be speaking with Bettman tonight about giving up current role.

 

[TML 13]

Where all the Tim L doubters at?

 

[cyris]

I dont care for this move much.
Shanny has no experience in the field of running a team or ties to the franchise.

Its a name to appease the fans.

 

[mt99808]

What a cluster**** this team is

 

[realgoodleafs]

Where all the Tim L doubters at?

Still here. What difference does this make?

 

[Swervin81]

Of course you'd make the thread, Cor

You know what, why the hell not? We've flung **** at the wall with all these retreads and nothing has worked, might as well try something else. I mean, things seriously can't get any worse...

 

[rdawg1234]

I dont care for this move much.
Shanny has no experience in the field of running a team or ties to the franchise.

Its a name to appease the fans.

lmao it's exactly what we need.

Reading the article the last time we hired a guy with a big name and little experience we made it to the conference finals twice, his name was Ken Dryden.

All we've been doing is hiring overexperienced guys who make terrible decisions, we need a new culture in this organization, too many of the same personnel have been making decisions during the post-lockout era(2005-)

 

[Tweek]

Shanny has no experience in the field of running a team or ties to the franchise.

I half agree with you, no experience is a negative but having no ties to the franchise makes it a bit easier to clean house in the offseason... if that is the way the winds are blowing.

 

[Swervin81]

I dont care for this move much.
Shanny has no experience in the field of running a team or ties to the franchise.

Its a name to appease the fans.

The last time we had any success was when our president was a big name, a winner, and HOFer, but with little experience (Ken Dryden).

 

[TML 13]

Still here. What difference does this make?

Patience. This guy's best talent is recruiting. Uijiri, Defoe, Bradly, Cesar. Tim L is going to bring in the people who will fix the Leafs.

 

[Ed Belfour]

I think some fresh thinking is just what we need around here. Bringing in all of these experienced execs has gotten us nowhere, might as well try out some new blood.

Another point, now we are going to have to deal with even more nonsense about how the Leafs get away with stuff/less suspensions/all that crap with Shanny in our organization. I can already see every fan of other teams whenever there is a big hit: "Should be a suspension, but the Leafs have Shanny so no surprise here"

 

[realgoodleafs]

lmao it's exactly what we need.

Reading the article the last time we hired a guy with a big name and little experience we made it to the conference finals twice, his name was Ken Dryden.

All we've been doing is hiring overexperienced guys who make terrible decisions, we need a new culture in this organization, too many of the same personnel have been making decisions during the post-lockout era(2005-)

We hired JFJ. These guys instantly have ties to their puppet masters at MLSE so lets not pretend he's going to bring in a new viewpoint.

 

[BiggestLeafsFanEVER*]

it's very important we don't let them manipulate us with the BIG NEWS into forgetting how ****** the team has played

this will not distract me!

 

[kesleaf]

I hope this is a good thing..!

What does this really mean for the Leafs?

I understand that if any more words come pouring out of your **** mouth, I'm going to have to eat every ****ing chicken in here.

But seriously, I understand that his role is to be the GMs boss...so he overlooks all the trades/signings and stuff right? But how is that a "good" thing, if we fire nonis and get someone better?

 

[McGuiresMonsters]

I like Tim L, but I'm not buying this move, at least initially. We'll see how it goes, but I'm not ecstatic about Shanny.

 

[BiggestLeafsFanEVER*]

Patience. This guy's best talent is recruiting. Uijiri, Defoe, Bradly, Cesar. Tim L is going to bring in the people who will fix the Leafs.

sort of like he told nonis to sign clarkson

 

[realgoodleafs]

Patience. This guy's best talent is recruiting. Uijiri, Defoe, Bradly, Cesar. Tim L is going to bring in the people who will fix the Leafs.

Uijiri, Defoe, Bradly, Cesar...Clarkson

 

[stakesishigh]

Cool I guess?

 

[pooleboy]

good changes need to happen
next is hextal to be brought in as GM, and hopefully builds through the draft. Liewikie watched Lombardi draft in the top 5 year in year out for a long time in LA and knows thats how u build winners, first thing he did was trade vets for picks. Hopefully that is what we do.

 

[Duffman955]

it's very important we don't let them manipulate us with the BIG NEWS into forgetting how ****** the team has played

this will not distract me!

Straight up,

Wtf Shanahan gonna do anyways? suspend us even more?