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Originally Posted by Bandwagon Surfer
So what was the problem with Dubas in Toronto? As someone who goes out of their way to ignore the Toronto media, I have not paid attention to the the details of what happened there. But superficially looking at where the teams are, Toronto has a really strong team who has just had their best playoff performance in a while, finally managing to beat the lighting, and lost only to a hot team now playing in the finals. Compared to the situation Calgary is in, they look so much better off. Even compared to last year's Flames, their team and playoff performance seems better.
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Pretty similar to Treliving in Calgary in that he couldn't get his team over the hump in the playoffs. It appears he was also a little too chummy with the players and the belief is that he would never be able to make the difficult moves and cut loose one or two of the core 4 or the head coach. Also similar to Calgary there was a bit of a power struggle within the organization with Shanahan and Dubas not seeing eye to eye on some things. I don't think he did a bad job but he was handed a fantastic roster of young talent and could only lead them to regular season success. His big moves like Muzzin and Tavares didn't work out either. When a team is in a cup window like the Leafs you hate to see it wasted with no playoff success. I don't know if Treliving will do any better but I think he will have less issues when it comes to moving out a big name player or firing a head coach. I also think he will focus more on building a better defense that's hard to play against as Dubas was more focuses on offensive skill than grit (according to Leafs fans anyway).