Though they won’t be making sweeping changes, the Toronto Maple Leafs front office will look a little different next year. David Alter of The Leafs Nation reports that senior director of player evaluation Jim Paliafito and hockey research and development analyst Cam Charron are no longer with the club.
Paliafito is the bigger news here, as he has been with the club since 2015 and is often credited with finding some of the late-round or undrafted European players the team has iced over the last several years. After spending several years as the general manager of the Saginaw Spirit, he joined the Maple Leafs for the 2015-16 season in the same player evaluation role he is now exiting.
Involved in the recruitment of players like Nikita Zaitsev, Ilya Mikheyev, and others, Paliafito impact has been significant on the Maple Leafs, despite the lack of organizational playoff success that has been achieved with this group.
Charron meanwhile has been with the team’s analytics department since 2014, when Brendan Shanahan took over the organization and made sweeping changes to the front office and hockey operations.
Problem solved. I’ve been saying all year that Paliafito & Charron are the problem. The Leafs know the playoffs are four rounds, right?
As long as Shanahan and his flunkie are there, the players will never know see round two
Pig, here’s your lipstick.
Dubas is still there !! I want Lamarello back
Roster construction is the shytes. Literally nobody to throw out there to stop other teams top lines.