Reports indicate former San Jose Sharks coach Ron Wilson has been offered the head coaching job for the Toronto Maple Leafs and is on his way to Toronto to meet with Leaf officials.
Wilson was fired as head coach of the San Jose Sharks after they were eliminated in the Western Conference semi final by the Dallas Stars.
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As Mats Sundin cuddles with fiancée Josephine Johansson and watches the Detroit Red Wings try to end the hockey season with yet another Stanley Cup championship tonight, he'll be getting a sense of how the other half lives.
Following yet another lost season at the helm in the city that Stanley forgot, Sundin must be giving some serious thought to cutting his losses in Toronto and relocating to a city where hockey can actually be fun again.
Here we are, set to watch the four best teams in hockey lock horns for the right to play for Lord Staley's ancient urn, and those $@&*$!&$@#! Toronto Maple Leafs — as they are known everywhere outside so-called Leaf Nation — try to upstage the proceedings yet again.
So while we have a few hours...
In a move that caught most hockey observers off-guard simply because of the timing, the Toronto Maple Leafs have fired head coach Paul Maurice.
The Leafs, who are also in the hunt for a general manager to replace interim GM Cliff Fletcher, relieved Maurice of his duties this morning.
If the report out of Windsor is accurate - and really, who knows for sure if it is - suggesting Colin Campbell is about to be named the new General Manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs, one of two things seems fact.
A. That Richard Peddie and MLSE can't learn from their past mistakes, or
