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2016 Summer Housekeeping Thread

Leafs have hired Patrick Charbonneau as a scout. He operates in the QMJHL.
https://mapleleafshotstove.com/2016/08/10/toronto-maple-leafs-hire-scout-patrick-charbonneau/
former Rimouski Oceanic Assistant GM, Sherbrooke Phoenix GM and QMJHL Director of Central Scouting
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herman said:
Leafs have hired Patrick Charbonneau as a scout. He operates in the QMJHL.
https://mapleleafshotstove.com/2016/08/10/toronto-maple-leafs-hire-scout-patrick-charbonneau/
former Rimouski Oceanic Assistant GM, Sherbrooke Phoenix GM and QMJHL Director of Central Scouting
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Seems to have a pretty good resume. The Leafs have had a pretty mediocre record when it comes to drafting players from the Q in the past 20-ish years (although hopefully Timashov breaks that trend, and/or even Gauthier).
 
Job titles are largely made up, but sometimes entail remuneration considerations.

With the addition of Tim Speltz at a Director level, it didn't really make sense for him to report to Mark Hunter who was at the time Director of Player Personnel (nevermind that Ari Vuori was Director of European Scouting already). I fully expect them to name a Director over the East in the upcoming days.
 
My guess: another team wanted to offer Hunter an AGM spot, and either the Leafs denied the request or Hunter turned them down but either way the Leafs had to "promote" him because of it.
 
herman said:
Job titles are largely made up, but sometimes entail remuneration considerations.

With the addition of Tim Speltz at a Director level, it didn't really make sense for him to report to Mark Hunter who was at the time Director of Player Personnel (nevermind that Ari Vuori was Director of European Scouting already). I fully expect them to name a Director over the East in the upcoming days.
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Well, it made some sense considering that like you say these job titles are largely made up.
 
A good read:

http://theleafsnation.com/2016/8/21/the-fine-lines-of-trust-and-excuses

It's looking at the team's cap situation and saying "don't worry about it, they'll be fine" while a team that just finished in 30th sits within $50,000 of the salary cap with millions in rookie performance bonuses likely to spill into 2017/18. It's saying Loophole Lou can do anything while the Jared Cowen buyout, which Lamoriello publicly announced four months before the paperwork was filed, sits in court while an arbitrator decides whether it's even logistically possible two months after the fact. It's repeating the echo that this team has an expertise for cherry picking the undervalued, and being the first to lose the game of chicken and give up assets for a goaltender in the summer.

None of these things individually mean that Leafs management are doing a bad job. In fact, even if you combine them all and stack them against what else has happened in the last couple of years, that group is still doing an overwhelming amount of good. But being mostly good doesn't mean that we should brush the curious off as "they know better than us". That creates a yes-man scenario where people start to buy into themselves too much and start making mistakes because nobody's there to second-guess them.
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Nik the Trik said:
A good read:

http://theleafsnation.com/2016/8/21/the-fine-lines-of-trust-and-excuses

It's looking at the team's cap situation and saying "don't worry about it, they'll be fine" while a team that just finished in 30th sits within $50,000 of the salary cap with millions in rookie performance bonuses likely to spill into 2017/18. It's saying Loophole Lou can do anything while the Jared Cowen buyout, which Lamoriello publicly announced four months before the paperwork was filed, sits in court while an arbitrator decides whether it's even logistically possible two months after the fact. It's repeating the echo that this team has an expertise for cherry picking the undervalued, and being the first to lose the game of chicken and give up assets for a goaltender in the summer.

None of these things individually mean that Leafs management are doing a bad job. In fact, even if you combine them all and stack them against what else has happened in the last couple of years, that group is still doing an overwhelming amount of good. But being mostly good doesn't mean that we should brush the curious off as "they know better than us". That creates a yes-man scenario where people start to buy into themselves too much and start making mistakes because nobody's there to second-guess them.
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That's true, but I think we also have to guard against becoming unrealistic, every swing of the bat isn't going to be a homer.

I think the air of pessimism that has surrounded the team still lingers and whenever anything happens that is not deemed to be perfect, it certainly feels like as much as there is a rush from some to defer to the management, there is a similar rush by others to prove that this means the Leafs still suck and that the air of positivity surrounding the team isn't a valid one.

The truth is it's somewhere in between with a few reasons to be really hopeful, more so than we've had in recent memory at least.
 
With the Hunter news yesterday I looked up Kyle Dubas and was floored to re-discover he's still 29 until late November.  For some reason I had convinced myself the Leafs hired him at around 30 and he'd be 32 or something by now.  Man he's young.
 
Martin Marincin getting some work done, cutting out some superfluous aspects to his inside game.

https://twitter.com/3rdPeriodSuits/status/768789093950091264
 
JVR spitting hot fire:

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