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The Search for the New GM Thread

Cojo said:
No - i wish i could remember which report it was but they had confirmed that Treliving was in Toronto and had met with the leafs.
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I’m pretty confident that no such report exists. All I’ve seen is complete speculation that Treliving is a guy that the Leafs might want to interview or might have interviewed. Though a bunch of those reports have been phrased in such a way that it makes it look like concrete facts are being reported if you don’t read carefully enough.

Open to being proven wrong though.
 
Scott White could be an interesting name. He is Jim Nill's assistant, and has been the Texas Stars GM since 2009, they've made 3 finals and won the Calder Cup.

Know nothing about him other than that. But thats already way better than Chiarelli.
 
Preston said:
That Fox guy said that the Leafs 100% met with him this week if that counts for anything. I believe it, but I'm not sure Fox isn't just making an educated guess and phrasing it as fact.
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Did he? Went through Fox’s Twitter timeline since Shanny’s press conference, and the only thing I see from him is a retweet of another reporter saying Treliving has permission to speak to the Leafs (and any other team).

And then this clear bit of pure guesswork in this article:




We fully expect the Leafs to interview ex-Flames GM Brad Treliving. And as Sportsnet’s Eric Francis reports, Calgary has reconsidered blocking the executive — technically under contract through June 30 — from speaking to the opposition.

Treliving’s father, Jim, knows Leafs co-owner Larry Tanenbaum well from the business world. That could help.
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LeafGm said:
Did he? Went through Fox’s Twitter timeline since Shanny’s press conference, and the only thing I see from him is a retweet of another reporter saying Treliving has permission to speak to the Leafs (and any other team).

And then this clear bit of pure guesswork in this article:

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Yeah he did. He said he's "100% sure" they met this week. But to your point, I think it could just be an educated guess phrased as fac.t



In any event, I think they met. Maybe they couldn't get an exact time or place but it seems pretty clear that they spoke. As you'd expect.
 
Preston said:
Yeah he did. He said he's "100% sure" they met this week. But to your point, I think it could just be an educated guess phrased as fac.t

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More bullshit. What plan? Are they going to put together some formal business plan, with financial projections and risk factors, and present it to him? At most, they can speak to keeping the core 4 together and whether they'll be leaning towards kids or vets.

He'll sign if he wants to sign, and he wants to sign, he's already even confirmed that.
 
Preston said:
Yeah he did. He said he's "100% sure" they met this week. But to your point, I think it could just be an educated guess phrased as fac.t



In any event, I think they met. Maybe they couldn't get an exact time or place but it seems pretty clear that they spoke. As you'd expect.
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Definitely not interested in listening to an hour long clip of “The Jeff Marek Show” to hear exactly what was said, so I’ll take your word for it.

Still think he’s full of shit though. If any one hockey journo had 100% confirmation they’d met, we wouldn’t be seeing so much weasely reporting around this.
 
LeafGm said:
Definitely not interested in listening to an hour long clip of “The Jeff Marek Show” to hear exactly what was said, so I’ll take your word for it.

Still think he’s full of shit though. If any one hockey journo had 100% confirmation they’d met, we wouldn’t be seeing so much weasely reporting around this.
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Click the twitter link, the clip is in there. I'd never listen to that garbage either. You can stop it before he rambles incoherently about Matthews of course.
 
Kind of feel like its equally, if not more, probable that LT would think his billionaire buddy's kid is an idiot as he would think he's trustworthy. May even be thats the only reason he's getting an "interview", like the Rooney rule.

You give your friends kids BS jobs, like president.
 
Preston said:
That Fox guy said that the Leafs 100% met with him this week if that counts for anything. I believe it, but I'm not sure Fox isn't just making an educated guess and phrasing it as fact.
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Fox 6 days ago: "We fully expect the Leafs to interview ex-Flames GM Brad Treliving."

Whole lotta degrees between "i fully expect" and "they met".

P.s. "fully expect" sounds a lot like "i strenuously object"
 
zeke said:
Fox 6 days ago: "We fully expect the Leafs to interview ex-Flames GM Brad Treliving."

Whole lotta degrees between "i fully expect" and "they met".

P.s. "fully expect" sounds a lot like "i strenuously object"
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Well in fairness today he said they 100% spoke.
 
Preston said:
"One thing I know for certain is that Trevs is the only 100% known candidate and he's already spoken with Shanahan."



I agree tho.. I think he's just blabbering. I don't think he knows for sure.
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If he had found out for 100% sure the Leafs had met with Treliving, you’d think that’d be a scoop worthy of a tweet or article.

Since no one else has reported that, and his only other previous written reporting on the matter is “we expect” the Leafs and Treliving to meet.

So yeah…he’s 100% just blabbering to fill air time.
 
100% spoke is just a telephone call.

And i'm not even sure how he could be 100% on that.
 
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