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Maple Leafs hire Ari Vuori as Director of European scouting, Steve Briere as goalie coach

Ari Vuori has worked as a European scout for the Red Wings since 2007-08. Vuori’s main territory was Finland according to the team’s amateur scouting map; the only Finns the Red Wings have drafted since 2008 are Teemu Pulkkinen (who is tracking very nicely, especially for a fourth round pick) and Julius Vahatalo (sixth rounder in 2014), but one imagines he would’ve had input on a lot of the (many successful) Euro picks the Wings have made over the past seven drafts.

Vuori has also been serving as a player coordinator for TPS of SM-liiga, his former team during his playing career.