Maybe MLSE headquarters only has so many panic rooms.
With pressing dilemmas and future-defining decisions piling up at the doors of Scotiabank Arena, a seismic summer started early at Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment. Perhaps then, amid the search for a new Raptors head coach and with the Maple Leafs’ hierarchy having to decide what to do with, well, everyone, Toronto FC’s issues have had to wait. Perhaps the soccer department is lingering outside the panic room, doing that one-minute-past-the-hour peer through the glass door at the Raptors or Leafs brains trust to let them know, “hey, sorry, yeah we actually have this room booked.