Help me out here: did Lou officially walk away from the Leafs last week?
- Atomic Wedgie

probably. just announced publicly yesterday is my take.

2hours ago: Hunter is best scout in NHL hockey
now: Hunter sucks, old-school and draft record horrible

2hours ago: Hunter is best scout in NHL hockey
now: Hunter sucks, old-school and draft record horrible


- MaximusAurelius

It's amazing what you can finally see once you remove the blue-tinted glasses.

And there's no real way to rank draft success: Number of NHL games? All of those have every bit to do with a player being a "coaches guy" or given the right opportunity (ahem, VGK).
- gravyface

thats true also, its hard to actually gauge Draft success.
A lot of the draft evaluations do something like see how many players drafted ended up playing 100 NHL games.

it gives you a baseline to rank team against themselves. but its not perfect.

Sooo....tampering?
- oldstyle

I doubt the Islanders will file tampering charges..

It's been said that Lou already agreed to the deal last week and it was just a meeting to "introduce" himself to Tavares;

Kinda went like this;

"Johnny, Lou Lamoriello here... Let me tell you how this works, you stay with the Islanders and your family gets to live.. So, we're clear, right?"

2hours ago: Hunter is best scout in NHL hockey
now: Hunter sucks, old-school and draft record horrible


- MaximusAurelius

I know

Hunter traded for Tavares in London
- PatC80

Then whoever signs Hunter up to be their NHL GM will have a leg up dealing with the Oshawa Generals?

So who will be candidates for assistant GM's for the Maple Leafs?

2hours ago: Hunter is best scout in NHL hockey
now: Hunter sucks, old-school and draft record horrible


- MaximusAurelius

He's definitely an old school hockey guy. Not sure I've read many Hunter sucks and his draft record is horrible comments. I'll have to go back and check.

So who will be candidates for assistant GM's for the Maple Leafs?
- Archaic

Fron Rancis

He's definitely an old school hockey guy. Not sure I've read many Hunter sucks and his draft record is horrible comments. I'll have to go back and check.
- walshyleafsfan

I think that the 2016 and 2017 drafts are questionable beyond the 1st rounds, but that's just me.

2hours ago: Hunter is best scout in NHL hockey
now: Hunter sucks, old-school and draft record horrible


- MaximusAurelius

Then whoever signs Hunter up to be their NHL GM will have a leg up dealing with the Oshawa Generals?
- Deeps27

Son of a....Really?

Fack, that sucks..

Help me out here: did Lou officially walk away from the Leafs last week?
- Atomic Wedgie

what a terribly kept secret though.
the second Dubas was announced people said Lou was gone to NY

So who will be candidates for assistant GM's for the Maple Leafs?
- Archaic

prindham probably gets one.

i'm guessing an unknown gets the 2nd.

So who will be candidates for assistant GM's for the Maple Leafs?
- Archaic

Chuck Fletcher and Steve Staios

Unless they fire Snow, bringing in Lou just makes the Islanders more of a poopshow, not less.
- Atomic Wedgie

Snow has 4 years of contract to burn still too so not a given he'll be moved out.

So who will be candidates for assistant GM's for the Maple Leafs?
- Archaic

imo probably not who people think
maybe Brandon Pridham

So who will be candidates for assistant GM's for the Maple Leafs?
- Archaic

Max and Sergei Fedorov

So who will be candidates for assistant GM's for the Maple Leafs?
- Archaic

James Tanner

His first overall and fourth overall picks look good. My dog could have done the same job.

Outside of those two picks, we have 37 games total at the NHL level. Too early to pass final judgement, but it isn't looking good right now.

Pro scouting has been equally meh.

I'm not as high on Andersen as most here.

Martin was a mistake.

We really don't have much to judge on his pro scouting.
- Atomic Wedgie

I agree with you.

The 37 games though is a bit misleading. They did come out and say they would be developing players and seem to be sticking to that.

prindham probably gets one.

i'm guessing an unknown gets the 2nd.
- Tumbleweed

Bergevin

Max and Sergei Fedorov
- PatC80

David Poile would get a close look.

Has there been an actual statement from the Leafs about Lamoriello?

James Tanner
- Atomic Wedgie

I'm really torn about the Wash/Tampa series.

If Tampa wins, it makes Tanner look foolish for claiming it was impossible for them to comeback from a 0-2 deficit.

If the Caps win, it makes him look foolish after all he's said about the Caps having a terrible offseason and being a team with no chance of winning at the beginning of the year.