Toronto Maple Leafs Are Having a Quietly Excellent Off-Season

The Toronto Maple Leafs don’t care what you think.

For the first time in the modern era, the Toronto Maple Leafs do not make organizational changes at the whims of the fans and media. This is an incredible, franchise altering, positive development, but it’s a bit like your mom making you finish your broccoli, so it’s a little bit unpopular.

William Nylander is perhaps the only player in Leafs history the combined might of the Toronto Media has been unable to run out of town. Kyle Dubas might be the first executive who can say the same thing.

Clearly the slanted coverage about the Leafs needs to be taken with a grain of salt, because the NHL’s two media giants split ownership of the team and go…