Confirmed with Link: Multiple staff leave Leafs front office

[Kamiccolo]

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[MattySnipes]

Makes sense with Lou leaving, along with potentially Wes Clark joining soon.

 

[Walshy7]

cant wait for the dubas detractors to complain about this

 

[Martin Skoula]

Shame about Namestnikov, KHL FAs would be useful to supplement a cap strapped contender.

 

[ACC1224]

Is Hofford still employed?

 

[SprDaVE]

Been posted and said in the Dubas thread for a couple days now.

Most of those were hires Hunter or Lamoriello appointed. The only one that has been here before them was Ladygin, who actually has been with the Leafs for a good decade or so.

I expect Hofford to leave and he will follow Hunter once July 15th hits. After that, I have no idea what to expect.

 

[SprDaVE]

Is Hofford still employed?

As of now, yep.

 

[Mckay]

This was expected.

Dubas will want to pick his own staff.

 

[NothingButPING]

The title seems like click bait. This has already been mentioned. Others above have already clarified. Nothing to see here.

 

[SeaOfBlue]

This was expected.

Dubas will want to pick his own staff.

And really, it's not even a big deal. Namestnikov has done a few things, but before him we hardly drafted Russian, which makes me question how successful Ladygin was. I can see the Leafs letting him go simply because he was not cutting it anymore.

The other guys were all buddies of Lou's who he brought in last year. I doubt they contibuted a significant amount, nor will be impossible to replace. After all, how much of an impact can they make for one year?

 

[Cor]

Only one that's disappointing is Namestnikov, since he was the one to lead us to Zaitsev, Ozhiganov and Soshnikov.

 

[ShaneFalco]

They will all become god-like all of a suddent

 

[Morbo]

Ya our Russian scouting has been terrible. no surprise on some of those names.

 

[Daisy Jane]

wasn't this already a thing? i feel that we knew this.
also. oh well. see ya.

 

[SeaOfBlue]

Only one that's disappointing is Namestnikov, since he was the one to lead us to Zaitsev, Ozhiganov and Soshnikov.

And Korshkov. Which at this point could be seen as a good or bad thing.

 

[Raymoondo]

Dubas doesn't even have control over his own staff members...

Clearly they don't respect this young nerd

 

[SprDaVE]

Ya our Russian scouting has been terrible. no surprise on some of those names.

We haven't picked players from Russia all that much in the past decade so the sample size is fairly low before this new front office. Between 2006 and 2014, the Leafs drafted ZERO players out of the Russian development system or the KHL. That's absurd.

Our US amateur scouting has been FAR worst. So many wasted picks. Bracco looks to be the best player drafted out of there since freaking Jimmy Hayes and Matt Frattin.

 

[saltming]

Shame about Namestnikov, KHL FAs would be useful to supplement a cap strapped contender.

Shanny is still tight with federov and his connections.

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

Only one that's disappointing is Namestnikov, since he was the one to lead us to Zaitsev, Ozhiganov and Soshnikov.

That's nothing to write home about though

 

[Liminality]

Dubas doesn't even have control over his own staff members...

Clearly they don't respect this young nerd

Huh? Didn't Dubas release them?

 

[Morbo]

We haven't picked players from Russia all that much in the past decade so the sample size is fairly low before this new front office. Between 2006 and 2014, the Leafs drafted ZERO players out of the Russian development system or the KHL. That's absurd.

Our US amateur scouting has been FAR worst. So many wasted picks. Bracco looks to be the best player drafted out of there since freaking Jimmy Hayes and Matt Frattin.

no I agree, we haven't drafted well. I don't mind changing scouts until we start hitting on more non-1st round picks. we're not getting an adequate share of the talent there.

 

[Morbo]

Only one that's disappointing is Namestnikov, since he was the one to lead us to Zaitsev, Ozhiganov and Soshnikov.

hmmm....not sure how disappointed I am if that's the resume

only scout we have that seems to stand out is Thommie Bergman, we seem to do better out of Sweden than anywhere else

 

[SprDaVE]

no I agree, we haven't drafted well. I don't mind changing scouts until we start hitting on more non-1st round picks. we're not getting an adequate share of the talent there.

Agreed. I hope our Swedish contingency can teach the rest of the scouting department a trick or two to finding talent.

 

[ShaneFalco]

Dubas doesn't even have control over his own staff members...

Clearly they don't respect this young nerd

And it begins......

 

[PromisedLand]

Good stuff Dubas. New era, new vision, new staff that work for that vision.

Steps in the right direction!!!