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Nonis, Horachek and assistants fired

bustaheims said:
No surprises there. I still expect we'll see some changes to the scouting department, as well. Especially the professional scouts.

Just gonna pat myself on the back, here. ;D
 
CarltonTheBear said:
Hopefully Dave Morrison, Steve Kaspar, and Mike Penny (how is he still here) are all among them.

Morrison has apparently been working really closely with Hunter, so, he appears to be safe, for now. I don't imagine we'll see a lot of movement in the upper echelon of the amateur scouts until after the draft.
 
bustaheims said:
CarltonTheBear said:
Hopefully Dave Morrison, Steve Kaspar, and Mike Penny (how is he still here) are all among them.

Morrison has apparently been working really closely with Hunter, so, he appears to be safe, for now. I don't imagine we'll see a lot of movement in the upper echelon of the amateur scouts until after the draft.

It's too close to the draft to move amateur guys now.  For one, they have a decent feel for the Leafs draft board and if fired they can then run off to another team and two, any replacements wouldn't really have the opportunity to do anything significant at the end of most seasons.
 
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Cox confirming an earlier report. This is what the Leafs scouting staff looked like before today:

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Kasper and Cowie are gone. Jim Hughes, who wasn't technically a scout, might be counted in that number. The rest will likely be the names you've never heard of before. I imagine Bergman and Ihnacak are safe.
 
L K said:
It's too close to the draft to move amateur guys now.  For one, they have a decent feel for the Leafs draft board and if fired they can then run off to another team and two, any replacements wouldn't really have the opportunity to do anything significant at the end of most seasons.

All of their work would have been filed by now. And really I'd trust Dubas and Hunter to run the OHL-part of the draft on their own anyway.
 
Wow, that was faster than I expected. Gives me hope that they're going to do the same with the roster, sooner rather than later.

Horachek made some interesting comments in his press conference after the Montreal game...noting that some players were "resistant to change" (any guesses who? LOL) and also questioning the conditioning of some players.
 
CarltonTheBear said:
L K said:
It's too close to the draft to move amateur guys now.  For one, they have a decent feel for the Leafs draft board and if fired they can then run off to another team and two, any replacements wouldn't really have the opportunity to do anything significant at the end of most seasons.

All of their work would have been filed by now. And really I'd trust Dubas and Hunter to run the OHL-part of the draft on their own anyway.

With those two in charge, I feel relatively comfortable that the Leafs would take Marner before Crouse, if put in that position.
 
Chris said:
Wow, that was faster than I expected. Gives me hope that they're going to do the same with the roster, sooner rather than later.

Horachek made some interesting comments in his press conference after the Montreal game...noting that some players were "resistant to change" (any guesses who? LOL) and also questioning the conditioning of some players.

They're not going to stop with the staff.
 
Guru Tugginmypuddah said:
My question is, who in the organization thinks they're Tommy?

They're going to tell Dion he's getting a special "Goodest Defenseman" award.
 
Instead of giving Nonis an extension, he should have been fired!  It was foolish to give him an extension to just fire him a year later.
 
Al14 said:
Instead of giving Nonis an extension, he should have been fired!  It was foolish to give him an extension to just fire him a year later.

Nonis never really got an extension. He just got a contract that reflected that he'd been promoted from AGM to GM. Also, it wasn't a year later it was two years later. He got the contract after they made the playoffs.
 
The 7 year contract to Phaneuf was mind-boggling at the time and is even more suspect now after a bad year (3 goals is tantamount to being the #1 guy on the power play?). Hopefully the Leafs pull the trigger soon on trading Dion and make all of our postings much more anxiety free over the next year. ;)

Nonis seems to be a good man but his contracts may have been part of his undoing.
 

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