What the Toronto Maple Leafs are doing isn’t the norm; it isn’t the traditional way of doing business at the management level.
Shanahan is trying to assemble and all-star roster of hockey minds to forge through the troubled times that are immediately ahead rather than give the keys to the most popular organization in hockey to a single person.
It’s a situation that’s a hard sell to some people – not being the guy.
Elliotte Friedman reported that the Maple Leafs had reached out to new Oilers hire Peter Chiarelli to gauge his interest in being part of the solution in Toronto prior to him joining the Oilers – with no success.