What role can Mats Sundin fill with the Toronto Maple Leafs?
Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman and Kyle Bukauskas on the 32 Thoughts: Podcast – Diving Into the Latest Playoff Action episode, on the Toronto Maple Leafs and Mats Sundin have some talk about a possible managerial position.
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Friedman: “I want to say this, too. I'm still curious to see what this Mats Sundin thing is going to look like. And I know it's narrowing down a little bit in terms of what his role is going to be, me, I'm not sure. I want to see when this is all over, if Matt Sundin is a part of this, and I think they want him to be a part of what I want. I just, I wonder if there's an undersell going on here, Kyle.
Bukauskas: “What are you getting here? You think it would be a bigger role than…
Friedman: “Like again, and you have to understand, I'm saying, this is someone who really likes Sundin. I admit that I have a bias towards him. I like the guy a lot, and I, I, I'm like, as they had him here. They were talking to him. And I wonder if there's a chance that he's not just a great mentor. If so.
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So I want to wait to see if all this, I mean, I could be wrong. I freely admit that I could be wrong. But the underselling of his role, raised my eyebrows. Maybe it doesn't work. Maybe they both decided to go in the opposite direction, but I'm just wondering about it. That's all.”
Toronto Maple Leafs projections with Mike Gillis
Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman and Kyle Bukauskas in 32 Thoughts: The Podcast – Diving Into the Latest Playoff Action episode, on the Toronto Maple Leafs and Mike Gillis' predictions.
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“You know the Mike Gillis thing. I just want to say this. I said the last time I heard there's at least one school of thought that he's going to be invited back for another personal interview. That hasn't happened yet.
But I want to correct some things that I think are wrong. I've had people text me saying, 'Do you think Gillis has been hired and this GM is going to work with him?' No, I don't believe that. I can't believe that at all. I don't think that happened. I understand why people might think that, but that hasn't happened yet.
And one person I told him that, he said to me, 'They had like, five meetings with him already. Why didn't they hire him?' I say, 'Five? Where do you get that from?' They had one, I think, dinner meeting with him, and that was months ago, and one intimate conversation with them. I think they have only spoken to him twice.
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So I think some of this stuff about Gillis is out there and it's not right. Now I will admit this, I have no proof that they told him he was out. And it looked like there was some momentum behind him at one point, but it seems to be cooling right now. With the idea that he is hired, they are just waiting to add him. It's just not true.”
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