Maple Leafs Management | End of Season Media Availability | May 10, 2024

Maple Leafs Management speaks with the media as the 2023-24 Maple Leafs season comes to a close.

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thank Steve morning everybody welcome I I haven’t been here uh since my boy was playing for the Humber belly sharks about 20 years ago when he was eight all the way through 12 I was here this Arena it certainly looks a little bit different now um thank you all for coming this morning I will not make this a habit of participating in team operation news conferences but this is different this is the first time I’ve spoken publicly at a news conference as the CEO of mlse and with that title brings the heavy responsibility of overseeing the Toronto Maple e and i Relish in that opportunity and at the core of that responsibility is the real reason I came back to Toronto and that is to win good is simply not good enough I can assure you that is the collective position of ownership and when I asked during the interview stage what was the definition of success to the owners one of them immediately said emphatically just win it’s not easy in a league where rules and regulations promote competitive balance but where we can we will provide our hockey operations with every resource to win I’ve been here four weeks and I’m still assessing evaluating and learning but I can assure you that no decision will be made like the decision earlier this week without a detailed analysis that provides us the best chance to win we need to win nothing matters and no doubt you’ve heard that before but I am a th% committed to and with that I will pass it over to our president of the Trona M beliefs BR thanks Keith first uh first off I would just like to thank Sheldon Keith for the nine Seasons that organization five as head coach of the Tonto police Sheldon had a difficult job in that as he had stated he dresses the players every single day and dresses the media two times sometimes three times a day and I just want to say that in that entire time with us Sheldon has done it with dignity uh with Grace and with professionalism I’d like to thank his wife Jackie son Landon Wyatt um Sheldon is a great coach and they don’t need me to tell them this but he’s an even better man so thank you to Sheldon I also respected the fact that Sheldon uh took on a lot of the responsibility for the lack of results in the playoffs um I respect that however the reality of the situation is the ultimate responsibility is on me the accountability is on me um our playoff results have not been good enough that’s on me the results that we’ve had in the playoffs our players know we know I know they’re unacceptable uh they’re unacceptable to our fans and they’re unacceptable to all those that support the try to make beliefs we analysis at the end of every season we we look at our team and we look forward and and we look for ways to be better and we do that every year in the past um I I believe that there are times where you talk about patience and and I still believe that there are times where patience is the suitable call however when you see patterns persist and the results don’t change you have to adjust the way that you think about things we will look at everything this summer and we will consider everything this summer all with the intention of the one thing that we are here for which is to make the make beliefs better and to win I’ll hand it over to Brad thanks Shanny um just to follow up on Brendan’s comments I think first and foremost I also want to offer um my sincere thank you to Sheldon him and I had an opportunity to work together for a year we went through a very detailed process I think I said it at the time I didn’t know Sheldon when I came in um and we went through a real detailed long sometimes difficult process when I got here and I believe today as I did that day um that keep keeping Sheldon here was the right call this is a really good coach this is a really good coach it’s an excellent person the difficulty of this business is sometimes really good people and people that are good at their job have to be changed um and when I look back at the the the 11 months I spent with Shel lot the past year um I do consider him an an excellent coach um this does not fall at his feet and by no means do I want it to be taken that by making a change at the head coach position um that all arrows point at Sheldon but I also couldn’t just look at the past year in a vacuum I’ll talk a little bit in terms of um the review of the season but I had to take into consideration the totality of Sheldon’s time here and I felt and at the end of the day it was my decision I felt strongly that a new voice was needed uh we had gotten to a place where just a new voice was needed and that’s the unfortunate part of this business I do not believe that you you churn coaches and and and you keep churning coaches I don’t think that is a recipe for Success at all but I just felt at the at the end of the day when I looked at um the totality of his time here A Change was a change was required I know Sheldon’s not going to be out of work long this is a really good coach who’s going to do a lot of really good things moving forward so I I want to make sure I state that in the opening I wish him his family nothing but uh nothing but the best moving forward uh when I quickly look at the season I think ultimately ultimately we didn’t uh as has been stated earlier we we we we fell short we didn’t accomplish the goals that we had set for ourselves that I felt were attainable and some years some years you look back um and you meet expectations you exceed expectations to me we fell short we left some on the table and ultimately that responsibility is mine I was brought in here the hockey operations is under my peruse the the players the coaches the staff so I take full responsibility everything that goes on on the ice um and I look at our season I think it was an uneven season to start we had we integrated new players there was there was I look at our our goal tending situation where was turbulent early on we went through some injuries on the blue line and I thought we stabilized going into the new year um um getting into our playoffs you know we had some players that missed some time but I really feel that the fall the the ultimate area that we fell short on is a is a consistent pattern that we’ve had here we didn’t score enough goals and special teams were the SEC we were the second best team and special teams in the series and those are areas that we we tried to look at um over the course of the summer but we will continue to to look at but as brandan said at when you go through a season as we have everything must be on the table everything needs to be looked at everything needs to be considered I’d like to just close here with with um a couple of injury updates um and and injury clarifications uh Bobby McMahon and our and I I can’t remember the date now but the home game against Detroit Detroit uh suffered an MCL sprain of his knee uh the original diagnosis we thought was going to be about six to seven weeks he was moving forward um we anticipated that he he at some point if we were to get to the second round he’d have been available Austin U at the end of game two Austin became real sick you know our initial thought was uh the way he was um as sick as he was that there was maybe a food poisoning of some description um it was a virus that that stuck with him um throughout game three he suffered a hit in game four um where we couldn’t rule out and we don’t know if it was a combination of the sickness the hit um but he was he was presenting head issues head head injury issues so we just we we we we pulled them and we weren’t going to clear them until those things cleared which they did on the morning or the afternoon of game seven uh William I think spoke to it during his availability um prior to to the playoff starting suffered severe migraines um again to the point where we had to look at at the symptoms as possible head injury concussion symptoms he was clear to those and returned to play uh Connor derer um is going is undergoing shoulder surgery today we anticipate anticipate that he’ll be he’ll be back for training camp and finally Joel wall suffered an sa SI joint sprain a sprain back um at the completion of game six which made him unavailable for game seven so just wanted to clarify and give you some of those uh updates on injuries well I think it’s impossible to put a timeline on that that is undeniably our Focus you know I’ve always believed that the formula for success is great skill combined with chemistry and unity and in the midst of facing adversity in in in the first series down 31 I got a full glimpse of the chemistry and unity that Brad and and Brendan have I cannot comment on what has transpired over the last number of years but I can tell you that chemistry and unity is the critical compon that add with skill in order to be successful and winning is winning the Stanley Cup I saw it this year during the 2023 Rider cup where we came in as as underdogs but the bottom line is under the the guidance of Luke Donald we had chemistry and unity that exceeded that of the Americans and as a result we were very successful and skill chemistry and unity is what I believe the recipe for success is and for me success is winning the Stanley Cup Nothing Else Matters than to stand like that I can only comment like I said on the on the first four weeks Brendan Shanahan is the president of the Toronto M Leafs he’s a champion he’s a three-time Stanley Cup winner uh what I what I saw in my four weeks with the two gentlemen beside me showed me that the chemistry and unity is being built at the highest levels and um I don’t have any other comments because I wasn’t here other than the uh the last eight years I understand the results but I can only evaluate what I have seen in the first four weeks thanks Luke I um you know I think it’s important to State as we’ve discussed even you know since the season has ended that everything is on the table we will discuss everything I don’t think it serves the Tron to M beliefs in any fashion to discuss those things prematurely uh to discuss those individuals prematurely uh our Focus right now is on finding a new head coach and certainly that new head coach will have an important voice as part of our decisions going forward I’m just simply saying that that whatever questions you guys ask us here today generally speaking are things that we’re going to have to consider after the things that we’ve seen um you know Brad um and Keith um are relatively new here but uh I am not and and I have seen some of these things over the years and again there I do believe there’s a time for preaching patience and then I do believe there’s a time where you have to examine some of the patterns that persist so everything will be on the table not to get into any specifics today I don’t think that serves the tronto beliefs well yeah thanks Terry um listen there’s some there’s some good coaching candidates out there we we intend to explore them I’m not going to get into specific individuals um as far as a timeline Terry we we want to be thorough but we also understand there’s there’s other openings um you know we we it was a difficult day yesterday you know and I and I think the the process that we went through up until the the puck went in the net Saturday night we’re we’re doing our focus is solely on trying to win that series and then you go through you know you you go through all the stages right you I I believe you got to you got to step back you don’t want to make emotional decisions and it’s been emotional still is um um so I wanted to deal with with Sheldon properly and and really be clear and think that process through spent some some quality time with them um and then once that decision was made get on to to the to to The Next Step so we began that yesterday um you know we’re we’re we’re not waiting um we’re going to be as we’re going to be thorough this isn’t something that’s going to be hastily done but we certainly know that there’s there’s there’s some quality candidates out there and we want to get to them as fast as we possibly can well Mike mik Mike what I would say is that um they know and understand that those results are not acceptable but you always want your players to believe they know that they’ll be changes and they’ll they’ll know that there are sacrifices that need to be made and that we need to get better um they’re talking on Monday and a couple days earlier they were fighting for their playoff live so um them having belief in themselves as individuals and as a group is is understandable in my point from my perspective it’s our job now and it’s their job to regroup and to better prepare themselves for next year right yeah the simple answer Mike is and and and it’s not just paying at lip service no it’s not acceptable and that’s why we have to look at as we said here today we’ve got to we’ve got to dive into this thing and and that’s not you know I I don’t believe you throw a body on the T act just to say we’ve done something um and and I and I know it gets played the the comments to to the media and I and and I don’t pay a lot of attention to that I pay a lot of attention to the comments that I have with the players um the meetings that we have with the players um they they understand they they understand that we’ve fallen short and uh um as as Brendan says there’s there is a time for patience there is a time in this game that you’ve gota you you’ve got to preach patience but I think we’re at a point when we see this repeatable that we’ve got to dig into it and uh but ultimately no the the results um it’s sitting here today when we think it’s that we’re we should still playing isn’t isn’t acceptable yeah it’s a good it’s a good question Kevin we I think there’s there is when I’ve when I’ve gone back now and and kind of looked at it there are some you know there’s there’s some similar touch points right one of them is we haven’t scored enough when I looked at this situation and spent some time over the course of the summer is you know we wanted to try to this team has scored in the regular season hasn’t scored in the playoffs we we increased our scoring in the regular season this year I think we the second Le we were the second highest scoring team in the NHL we’re the number one scoring team in the in in the East we increased I think our total goals for by 20 last year or this year over over the previous year one of the things I wanted to try to do is it wasn’t total goals it’s how the goals are scored in the playoffs you score differently in the playoffs than you do in the regular season so is it systematic is IT personnel um I think most of us in this room would understand it’s more difficult you’re defended harder you’re played harder in the playoffs so we haven’t scored enough we haven’t our our special teams haven’t been good enough and to your question we seem to be turning the other team’s goalie into the first star every night so I think it’s twofold we’ve got to find a way um systematically Personnel wise to find a way to score more in the playoffs and and score those goals that are scored in the playoffs and as far as our goal tending um you know Joe I I I’ve got faith in Joe now like everybody else there’s questions there’s questions that you know why the B biggest question with Joe is he’s getting he’s he’s gotten injured a lot um we have to dig into that is that sometimes that happens sometimes bad luck happens um is there a training issue that we have to to deal with is there do we need to change something in his office routine all those things is is what we have to dig into I believe in Joe as a goal tender um we we have to support Joe il’s il’s contracts up but we certainly we certainly have to try to put ourselves in a position where we’re not we we have the SEC that we don’t have the second best goal tender uh in each of these series but I think it’s a function of both sides not just our goal tending but what we do to make things difficult on the other team’s goal tender sorry Rosie I I missed that last part um well that’s that’s always the difficult part of the decision um like I said I I don’t I don’t question that we had a a real good coach here sometimes unfortunately in this business over a period of time the the message I don’t want to say they stop listening but the message stops hitting home and that’s not just a coach issue that’s we’ve said here player Personnel we we’ve got to look at those things everything um you know it’s not just changing the Personnel but understanding why a message may not be getting through um so we our Focus right now is trying to find that IND individual if you if you and and there’s there’s there’s not just one magic Point here I do think one of the things as I look at our team and and as we as we evaluate it over the course of the coming weeks is we’ve got to find a way to do the hard unsexy things longer and those things don’t require skill right there’s some things in these G in in this Sport and in this in in our games especially this time a year that are not related to skill but they help you win and that’s not to say you got to get rid of skill you need skill you need talent you need that to win um but to me we need a voice that can that can can bring that out question for Brandon we watched the second round of the playoffs now when we see teams scoring four and five goals every night coming back from four nothing leads coming back from four1 lead uh in eight elimination games for the maple leads your team has scored 11 goals that’s with the best goal scorer of this generation with some of the highest paid players in the NHL how should we believe that you can change this now when you haven’t been able to change it for the past eight years well that that is the challenge and and as Brad said that is that is what we we wake up every day um thinking of the ways in which we can change that narrative and those results um as Brad just alluded to there are regular season goals and then there are playoff goals um and I’m a firm believer that that sometimes um playoff goals come from playoff structure and defensive structure and limiting opportunities against um forcing teams to open things up against you uh but that that is the question that we we have to ask ourselves it’s happened too often um and I think that we have to it’s it’s a question of coaching it’s a question of messaging and it’s also a question of personnel uh we recognize exactly what you just stated that when the playoffs come um we don’t get the goals that we’ve been getting in the regular season so how do we change that you’ve got to get to the dirty areas to score in the playoffs and your power play has to be successful uh to give you that momentum and unfortunately aside from the Tampa Series in which our our our power play was good and we ended up winning that Series in all the other Series where especially we’ve we’ve gotten to a game seven and we faced elimination uh we haven’t gotten those results so that’s something we have to work on Brandon excuse me to follow up on that you’ve expressed a lot of faith in the core guys here over the years as you look back as as you assess it why do you think those guys haven’t been able to push the over the top um that’s that is the difficult question um that we’ve we’ve looked back and had different experiences where if you were to if you were to just live in a vacuum and and just view this one playoff you may have a different view of our team and the ISM and the and the closeness of where they were but we can’t think that way now after seeing what we’ve seen year after year after year and that’s where I’m saying that I I do believe that there’s there’s a time where the right answer is patience and then there comes a time where you have to say that that you have new information to you the information has evolved and you have to adjust your way of thinking I I know the desire is there I can tell you that that every player who has been here this entire time um wants to win in Toronto they have some have had opportunities to work elsewhere and have chosen to come back to Toronto they’re dedicated to getting it done here uh so I don’t question their dedication but I do question just our ability as a group to get it done in those difficult times and that’s why we have to make some changes and we’ll continue to look at changes with with the goal in mind what makes the M Poli better not just in the regular season but come playoff time Brendan uh can you right in the middle Brendan um can you uh clarify your contract situation is next year the final year on your deal and do you feel the team needs to have more success next year for you to stay on well I’m not going to get into the details of my contract and what is correct or not correct um I I can say this that it it it’s not a focus for me from from the day I was hired in the spring of 2014 till today uh I wake up every day with the goal of trying to find a way to add and make the map Leafs better uh my my last contract my first contract with the m beliefs was not addressed or renewed until a month before it expired it was not a distraction to me then my contract status will not be a distraction to me or the team now um beyond that uh I’m not going to discuss it this is a question for I guess brenon and um for the past several years this team has had four players that are high priced that take up about 50% of the salary cap space teams that seem to be winning don’t seem to structured does that philosophy talk that one of the top has to change well I think said the short answer is we have to look at everything and again we don’t have to um revisit history of when those contracts were done and and and we ran into a pandemic and and all the things that that happened um we’ve got and again I I I I have to expand the view I’ve got a 12 month view of this thing right um we’ve got really good players but it hasn’t worked right it hasn’t worked to and and again you we’re not going to come out here and make emotional decisions and make decisions so that we can have another press conference and look youall in the eyes and said look at look at what we’ve done that makes no sense but you have to analyze why it hasn’t worked and certainly I mean it’s it’s you you can have a Viewpoint and say we’ve we’ve invested in in in four players and you’ve got x amount of percentage of salary cap tied up there and if we spread it all around um you know you’re going to have more depth all these types of things we are where we are okay so this is the situation we are right in right now those are really good players um we’ve got to find a dig into why this why we’re ending up with the same result year after year after year and and and and adjust accordingly uh Keith you’re from Toronto you’ve probably heard uh so much uh negative talk about the te much does it burn you that uh this team hasn’t had success and now here you are with a in a role to uh to change that how much uh do you want to be part of that I haven’t been I haven’t uh spent much time here in the last nine years but in the last three to four weeks I’ve gotten a full glimpse of the power of leaf Nation I understand the passion the commitment of the fans and it uh it quickly reminded me of going to my very first game in Liverpool and you know hearing that song You’ll Never Walk Alone the the fans here not only deserve but demand a championship and there’s no complacency we’re we’re not here to sell jerseys we’re here to win and we’re going to everything we possibly can to do that um as much as I I I love the city uh and Toronto is my home that was not the lore for me to come back the lore for me to come back was the possibility and the commitment to be successful and to win with the Toronto make beli and I’m going to do everything in my power and everything with the support of ownership to do just that um as I said the fans are incredibly passionate uh what I what I saw at Maple Leaf Square was staggering to me in game six the city is certainly different than it was nine years ago and one of the ways that it’s different is even more Leaf fans and leaf nation is even bigger than it was then and they deserve a 100% of our effort to go in and make this team successful and I believe that’s what we’re going to do brenon you’ve you know doubled tripled and quadrupled down with your faith in this court group when you look back at that you how do you see it is there a level of regret that you show these consistently disappointed you do you process that I I I don’t have regret for showing faith in people um I I I I wouldn’t put it that way Dave I as Keith alluded to when we when we all come to Toronto we we know especially where the team is at this stage of their development I mean there have been times in Le’s history where they’re at a different phase but if if you’re becoming a part of the Leafs organization now you you know why you’re coming here and you know what you’re getting into um and and our fans not just the ones that live here in Toronto and that come to our games and go to Maple square and watch our games on TV but the way that our fans support us on the road that’s an important and it’s a very driving and moving thing to us and our players um it’s you you you don’t want to let them down you want to deliver and if I felt that the players felt differently than that in spite of the fact that they haven’t delivered I might feel differently about them as well so we have to give them all the tools and we have to make changes where we think changes are going to help our team um but as far as believing in people and having faith in people um you want to help them see things through and look I’ve been in this game a long time whether it’s myself or the players or or staff we know how it works we we’ve we’ve all seen the good and the bad and we accept the consequences of might come that might come to any of us um but while you’re here the underlying and the overriding motivation has to be when you put your head on the pillar at night is have we made the better have we increased our chances to win the Stanley Cup and that’s what we have to do uh Brendan this one’s for you um the roster that completed this season had one player Joel Edmonson who has a Stanley Cup ring last year the team broke through won a series after adding a conm trophy winner Ryan O’Reilly Stanley Cup winner and Luke Shen so I’m wondering for you how big of a problem is the lack of winning pedigree and is that something that the franchise will address this offseason well I I I think it’s important I think I think it’s not always the most easy thing to attain but it’s certainly when we talk about players or we talk about staff members when we talk about Scouts when we talk about coaching staff it it’s certainly something that we see as an advantage and a benefit a player like Joel certainly was that I think that Brad um you know I think that Brad brought in some guys last summer not necessarily with Stanley Cups rings on their fingers um but he he brought an element to the team uh that we are in alignment with that that had um a lot more grit and and Brad quite frankly made the demand on the players to play more like a Brotherhood and a band of brothers and I think that they did Embrace that uh the results haven’t changed but I do think leadership those qualities I can tell you from you know a hundred years ago my own experience in Detroit when we won our first Stanley Cup only Joey kosher had a Stanley Cup Steve Eiserman had none Nick ledstrom had none Mike Vernon I’m sorry Mike Vernon and Joey kosher were the only two players that had a Stanley Cup so so would we love to have a whole bunch of guys here that that were bringing that would that be an attractive quality as we’re looking to add in the summertime absolutely but I still think ultimately it’s on the players that are here and the ones that come back uh to dig in it can’t you know and and know that it can be done they have to get to an uncomfortable place as I’ve said before they know that they understand that and it’s up to us to make the changes that we think will put them in the best position to win uh question for Keith a philosophical thing um you talked about the fact you were away for nine years while you were away the philosophy of this team in terms of how it spend cap money seemed to be spend whatever you need to on the highest skill players because we can’t afford to lose them up until the point where it’s around 50% of the cap and then spend the rest of the 50% on everybody other than those four or potentially five which then you talked about your philosophy of the need to bring in chemistry and unity as well as skill when you spend that much on so few players it doesn’t seem to leave you a lot of money left over for the chemistry and for the unity of the team does your philosophy conflict with the way things have been handled over the last nine years and do you see that affecting how you negotiate with anybody who’s potentially looking for a new deal in the near near future well the actual makeup of the team is the responsibility of Brendan and Brad when I talk about chemistry and unity I talk about it throughout the entire organization from ownership all the way to the equipment manager everybody has to pull on the exact same rope everybody has to understand what the objective what the goal is there has to be unwavering support for each other there’s no defensiveness uh that’s what Unity is and that is what is to win every everybody understands it and uh it is it is not the combination of just skill alone and skill from my from my experience is is is obviously a critical component of it but if you don’t have the chemistry throughout the entire organization and the unity and like I said starting from ownership all the way through to the equipment manager then it’s more difficult to be successful and that’s the support that I’m going to provide um BR Brendan and and and Brad uh have shown that that that chemistry Brendan and Brad knows what they have to do uh this summer and and they’re the experts at it and what I’m going to be as a support for them to hopefully Drive the importance of a chemistry and a Unity through the entire organization I’d like to add to that and and hand it over to Brad because um In fairness Gino that is that is something that Brad talked about when he came here and the importance of the rest of the team and the players and the roles uh so I’d like for Brad to talk about that because that is it’s uh that’s something that that certainly when he came was something that he recognized as well yeah two two things Gino I think and again understanding how it’s played out I don’t I don’t ever think the and I’m not going to speak to it not I wasn’t here then but I don’t ever think the philosophy was we’re going to spend half of our money on for on a small number of players things happen and salary caps didn’t grow as we all projected but we are where we are taking out salaries taking out all the other stuff I think it might have been you and I in an interview um when I first came and we I know there’s talk of you know the core and all these these these names that we talk we don’t talk about that in tury but what we have to do is everybody is important everybody see has to be F important and I think what we’ve had in this in this roster is we’ve had you know the idea that things have never changed here I I would disagree with there’s been there’s been a lot of change um and and there’s been a lot of change around those those core players obviously um but we have to and this isn’t the the players feelings but we have to make sure everybody feels important here this this is not can’t go on the backs of four individuals three individuals two individuals this is about the Toronto Maple it’s not about one two or three people and and salary aside that was one of the things I really wanted to try to change here is is everybody’s important to win here everybody you know winning teams have the unique ability for everybody to feel if they weren’t part of it they wouldn’t accomplish their goal regardless of minutes played dollars that they earn everybody’s important and that is what that is what is going to happen here forget about what you’re on the first and the 15th what you’re cashing we are not going to S have success here whether the guy the top of the food chain or number 23 on the list is important and they are last question Brendan do you still believe this Core Group can win if so why sorry say that the last part again do you still believe this Core Group can win and if so why well that gets back to the essence of of of the opening statement um I I think that when you uh there’s a time again not to repeat myself but there’s a time where you look at the age and the development of players and you talk about patience and then there comes a time where you see certain patterns and Trends repeat themselves results repeat themselves and that’s what we have to do this summer without getting specific I I’ve said earlier it’s not our intention here today to single any one individual out or any one small group of this team out we talk talking about the whole team what we are saying is that it it it has certainly become evident that we have to assess all of those things and assess whether or not we have to make some very difficult decisions this summer to make the team better do you want to follow up yeah yes why now and why not last summer two summer it was every summer it was every summer like I said to you you it’s not that you don’t make those assessments at the end end of every season you know two years ago three years ago four years ago five you make all of those assessments you take the information that you have at the time and the information that’s been brought to you at that time and what I’m saying to you is over time you know that information and when you see patterns not change um will you change things around some of your core issues hoping that this year uh the results will be different and they don’t that’s when you start having to reassess from different lens more information comes to you different information comes to you uh certain things that you may be felt in the past um start to shift as you get that new information so it’s not that these assessments aren’t made in the past it’s that you have to constantly be growing with your information and willing to adapt with your information and at the end of the day it’s it’s just saying uh when we come back here next year and it it might not look at on the first day of camp it might might be in the trade deadline it might be but when we’re walking into next year’s playoffs knowing knowing that we first have to make the playoffs but when we’re walking in next year to the playoffs that we’re a team that we feel more confident that can get different results thank you gentlemen thanks everybody for joining for