What role could Mats Sundin fill with the Toronto Maple Leafs?
Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman and Kyle Bukauskas on 32 Thoughts: The Podcast – Diving Into the Latest Playoff Action episode, on the Toronto Maple Leafs and Mats Sundin having some talks about a potential management position.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Friedman: “I want to say this, too. I am still very curious to see what this Mats Sundin thing is going to end up looking like. And I know it’s getting downplayed a bit in terms of what his role will be, I, I’m not sure. I want to see when this is all over, if Matt Sundin is part of this, and I do think they want him to be part of this, I’m very curious to see what it’s all going to look like. I just, I just wonder if there’s an undersell going on here, Kyle.
Bukauskas: “What are you getting at here? You think it could be a bigger role than …
Friedman: “Like and, and you have to understand like, I say, this is a person who really likes Sundin. I confess I have a bias towards him. I really like the guy, and I, I, I’m just, like they had him here. They were talking to him. And I just wonder if there’s any chance that it’s not just an advisor. If it’s something bigger than that.
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So I want to wait to see what it all, I mean, I could be wrong. I freely admit I could be wrong. But the underselling of his role, it’s got my antenna up. Maybe it doesn’t work out. Maybe they both decide to go in a different direction, but I’m just wondering about it. That’s all.”
The Toronto Maple Leafs and Mike Gillis speculation
Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman and Kyle Bukauskas on 32 Thoughts: The Podcast – Diving Into the Latest Playoff Action episode, on the Toronto Maple Leafs and Mike Gillis speculation.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
“You know the Mike Gillis thing. I just, I just want to say this. I said it last pod that I had heard that there was at least one school of thought he would be invited back for another in-person interview. That hasn’t happened yet.
But I want to correct some things I think are wrong. There are people out there who’ve texted me and said, ‘Do you think that Gillis is already hired and this GM is going to work with him?’ No, I don’t believe that. I do not believe that at all. I don’t think that’s happened. I can understand why people might think that, but that has not happened.
And one person who I told that to, they said to me, ‘They’ve had like, five meetings with him already. Why haven’t they hired him?’ I’m like, ‘Five? Where’d you get that from?’ They had one, I think, dinner meeting with him, and that was months ago, and one zoom interview with them. I think they’ve only spoken to him twice.
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So I think some of this stuff about Gillis is way out there and not correct. Now I’ll admit this, I have no evidence that they’ve told him he’s out. And there certainly seemed to be some momentum behind him at one point, but it’s seems to have gone cold right now. And the idea that he’s been hired and they’re just waiting to add to him, it’s false. It’s just not true.”
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