Dave Feschuk: Leafs GM Kyle Dubas is giving fans something to celebrate, though winning the deadline isn’t the goal
Add that trio to the threesome of new-in-town forwards Ryan O’Reilly, Noel Acciari and Sam Lafferty — three players valued more for their reputation for competitiveness than for any specific statistical measure — and you could easily see Dubas’s furious shopping spree as an out-of-character casting call for old-fashioned, eye-test-proven character.
Heck, considering the Leafs just brought in six new players, and none has ties to the Sault, it’s fair enough to ask: Is Dubas even running this team anymore?He is. He is. But if Shanahan acknowledged after last year’s playoffs that the team was still searching for that elusivethis looked a lot like Dubas’s last-ditch shot at taking the boss’s hint and finding the stuff.
“There’s no reason for us to really beat around it. We’ve wanted to become more competitive,” Dubas said. What a concept: procuring players who will actually fight for every inch of net-front ice amid the heightened intensity of the post-season cauldron. Still, to a general manager who emerged from last year’s latest playoff failure asking for a chance to run it back, claiming unwavering belief in his group, this amounts to a substantial late-season reno with a scant 22 games to go — and with potentially more change to come.
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