The job of being the Toronto Maple Leafs General Manager (GM) has the same responsibilities as the other 30 teams in the National Hockey League. To quote the late, great Al Davis: “Just Win, Baby.”
Unfortunately winning is not as easy as that sounds. The NHL has never had so much parity, and if a GM doesn’t win in their first two years, the clock usually strikes midnight and they’re fired.
With that being said, of the 17 men who have been the Toronto MapleLeafs GM, only three of them have won a Stanley Cup, and the last GM to win (Punch Imlach) died in 1987, so it’s been a while.