Yea, what Shanahan said is never really said in the media, but what Dubas said Monday is NEVER EVER said in the media.
Like they offered him an extension in March, said sure talk to my agents, worked it all out, was probably going to present the extension on Tuesday which is why Shanahan didn't want Dubas to talk to the press at all that day, and the dude came out and flat said well I dunno if I really want to be the GM anymore. Family family whatever, fine I get that but dude nothing changed. This city has never changed regarding hockey. You can either deal with it or not and it sounded like he was fine with it. Didn't talk to anyone prior to that just flat said it. Dude what are you doing. Then his agent goes back to Shanahan and says well we need more money and full autonomy and that Kyle would call him. Not only did he not call him and sent an email saying yea I want to job.
Dubas is acting like fucking Marner. Cept Marner only answer to Dubas, Shanahan wasn't going to take that shit so he fired him and good for canning his ass.
I think Dubas is a quality GM, has made more good moves then bad, with assumptions of a cap going up which everyone did then COVID hit. But he fucked the Leafs. They HAD 6 weeks to trade Marner, figure out Matthews / Nylander deal with the draft and find a new coach. Now they have 5 AND they have to find a new GM and possibly trade Matthews too.
The attitude he showed this week tells me why this group is fucked. He coddled Marner and Matthews. When the coach said something mean he had to walk it back, like why? Marner was playing like trash deal with it.
Whole thing is shit.