Kyle Dubas won’t return as Maple Leafs general manager

Kyle Dubas received’t return as Maple Leafs basic supervisor, the workforce has confirmed.

Staff president Brendan Shanahan may have a information convention on Friday at 3 p.m.

“I wish to thank Kyle for his unwavering dedication over these final 9 seasons with the group, together with his final 5 as basic supervisor,” Shanahan stated. “Kyle fostered a terrific tradition inside our dressing room and workers, and persistently pushed to make our workforce higher season over season. We want Kyle and his household the perfect transferring ahead and thank him for his priceless contributions.”

When Dubas spoke to the media on Monday, he raised far more questions when he introduced that he was not prepared to totally decide to returning.

“What I might say to that’s that I believe it requires me to have a full household dialogue,” stated Dubas, whose contract expires June 30. “My household is a vastly necessary a part of what I do. So for me to decide to something with out having a fuller understanding of what (toll) this 12 months took on them might be unfair for me to reply the place I’m at. I want I may provide you with extra.

“We haven’t been capable of have these full discussions but, however it was a really exhausting 12 months on them. And it’s powerful for me too … what I might say is that I positively don’t have it in me to go wherever else. So it’ll both be right here, or it’ll be taking time to recalibrate, mirror on the seasons right here. However you received’t see me subsequent week pop up elsewhere. I can’t put them via that after this 12 months.”

There was extra housecleaning Friday when the AHL Marlies introduced they won’t renew the contracts of head coach Greg Moore and assistant coaches A.J. MacLean and John Snowden.

Dubas was employed by Shanahan in the summertime of 2014 as assistant GM underneath Dave Nonis and have become co-interim GM with Mark Hunter after Nonis’s firing in Could of 2015 till Lou Lamoriello was employed that July. After three years mentoring underneath Lamoriello, Dubas acquired the large chair.

He revolutionized how the Leafs operated, each together with analytics as a way to draft, signal and commerce gamers. He used MLSE’s huge fortune to construct a coaching, teaching and medical workers that was the envy of different organizations, with workers dedicated to making sure every thing from participant sleep patterns and coronary heart charges to household life had been taken care of.

He was conscious of the workforce’s affect in Canada’s largest metropolis, and labored to make the group much more inclusive in its teaching and managerial hirings, taking steps to be extra reflective of the market the workforce performs in.

Since he acquired the job, the Leafs have amassed 221 wins, 109 losses, and 42 extra time/shootout losses for 484 factors, which stands them fifth within the NHL since that point. Nos. 1 and a couple of are playoff nemeses Boston and Tampa, every a part of the explanation Dubas’s groups have managed solely collection one win in his 5 years on the helm.

Dubas has largely been criticized for coddling his massive stars, providing massive cash offers as a way to William Nylander (six years, $45 million (U.S.) on Dec. 1 2018), Auston Matthews (5 years, $58.2 million on Feb. 5, 2019), and Mitch Marner (six years, $65.4 million on Sept. 13, 2019) after signing John Tavares in a much-heralded coup as certainly one of Dubas’s first orders of enterprise on July 1, 2018 (seven years, $77 million).

Along with making ready for the June 29 draft, the Leafs basic supervisor has different urgent enterprise with reference to preserve the core collectively or not.

Matthews and Nylander are eligible to signal extensions on July 1. Matthews and Marner have no-move clauses kicking on July 1, Nylander has a restricted no-trade clause beginning the identical day, whereas Tavares has had a full no-movement clause for the size of his deal.

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