It was an emotional week that ended in the Toronto Maple Leafs getting eliminated in the play-in round, which wasn’t even technically the playoffs. Compounding matters, this is the fourth year in a row the team has lost out in the first round. In any market, that’s going to raise questions, but in Toronto, the scrutiny is even more intense and so is the demand for change.
In his end-of-season media availability, Brendan Shanahan made it clear that his two main people in charge – GM Kyle Dubas and Head Coach Sheldon Keefe — are going nowhere.