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There are literally no good photos of Chris MacFarland COL saves some money

So that’s interesting

Look: this is from May 30 from a former Rogers employee who is pretty tapped into the media side (not hockey ops), so it's fringe-ish. Around that time there were mainstream insiders saying MacFarland has not interviewed or whatever with Nashville (who have known they'll be needing a new GM...

I am starting to think the Front Office has dedicated 'leakers' for feeding misinformation to non-Rogers insiders and state-sanctioned solid information to the Sportsnet guys. Actual leaks are seeping through the admin-chain and only going to the nobody-adjacent folks or through other involved...

What else are they supposed to ask about if

William Villeneuve assist

Extremely unsurprisingly, Matthew Hlacar and Nathan Mayes will re-enter the draft Edmonton isn’t signing Albin Sundin, tall RHD with no production, who attended a Leaf Dev Camp a couple years back

But Also

As outlined in the presser, Freddie Hamilton will be greasing the synergies and horizontal integrations between the verticals to ensure all the whats and whys the hockey ops leaders want to accomplish are handled by someone overseeing the hows.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/3485659/2022/08/08/judd-brackett-minnesota-wild/ Oh, Brackett is also a restauranteur, so he can talk shop with Chayka 2x Here's a BTS of his draft work with the Wild

The other big thing the Brackett hire adds to the front office is someone in Leadership with extensive actual NHL front office experience GM: John Chayka, interrupted Sr. Advisor: Mats Sundin, it's been awhile AGM, Player Development: Dr. Hayley Wickenheiser, doesn't really get directly...

Feels like yesterday I was laughing at the Canucks for being so cheap they lost the draft guy that netted them Q. Hughes and Pettersson (and got overruled on M. Tkachuk) and bemoaning that he went to the Wild (to eventually net them the prospect capital to swing a Q. Hughes trade). Anything...

Oh, so it's a family-level preference to use the diminutive for their given names.

That’s my assumption. Brackett was pursuing a promotion that MIN did not entertain, so this will be an upward move; my assumption is the AGM director of player personnel (formerly Derek Clancey) so he’d oversee pro and amateur scouting decisions Probably, but all the Leafs prep work should...

Wild reporting similar Edit:

Just waiting for the Polymarket odds to stack up before swinging big with the eleventh hour bid before the Leafs announce his hire.

Matthew Hlacar is a Memorial Cup champion (nominally)

As of my writing this, yep. It’s on his list (he’s into hockey (junior, college), Catholicism, and money stuff, and the Toronto Maple Leafs.