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Kyle Dubas is new Leafs GM

Today is Kyle's first birthday as an NHL GM. Y'know what would be a great way to celebrate the milestone?

Finally locking down that Fortnite floss,
 
Pierre LeBrun got a chance to sit down with Dubas yesterday following the group chat.
https://theathletic.com/719474/2018/12/18/lebrun-qa-with-kyle-dubas-on-the-nylander-negotiations-deals-for-matthews-and-marner-and-offer-sheets/

It's mostly softball reiterations of what was asked in the bigger scrum, but I can't believe how much mileage Dubas can get out of stating the obvious obviously:
Your fan base is excited about this season, the chance to win, and the years beyond as well, which gets me to this question: you have a lot of flexibility at this year?s trade deadline, really to do whatever you want, and yet you also know what lies ahead in the years to come (cap-wise). I suppose the easiest thing would be to go get a rental player, although you kind of hate giving away assets for a guy who won?t be around after this year?

Sure. And I think going back to those contracts (Matthews, Marner), if we have some certainty or some relative certainty about where the contracts for Auston and Mitch are going to come in, and we have more certainty at that time for where the salary cap will be for next season, we may be able to add players that are more than just rentals, that do have some term, whether it?s one, two or however many years left on their contracts. I think all those pieces kind of have to fit together. I don?t really look and see many pure rentals that really change the dynamic of our group. So anything that we?d be looking at would be players that probably have some term. That?s why it?s important for us to continue to work on those agreements with Auston and Mitch so we can have some cost certainty with them, so that we can look to improve our team this season and beyond.
 
So Dubas liked this tweet on Twitter

https://twitter.com/junotheleafs/status/1076981088172560385?s=19
 
Probably the biggest signing of Dubas? tenure so far:
https://twitter.com/belfryhockey/status/568723237884067841

Yes, more so than Tavares.
 
https://www.pensionplanpuppets.com/2019/4/29/18518862/the-complete-first-year-of-kyle-dubas-toronto-maple-leafs-signings-trades-contracts
 
https://theleafsnation.com/2019/05/12/leafs-on-deck-episode-24-rachel-doerrie-discusses-leafs-development-operation/

Some insight into Dubas' work with the development side of the Leafs organization from Rachel Doerrie.
 
https://twitter.com/kyledubas/status/1132476347555766272
https://twitter.com/hockey_db/status/1132489417564803073
 
haha everyone's watching the basketball. Dangle even had an RFR!

Kyle had a lot to do his last summer with the Tavares courting and the Big-3 contracts looming. With two of the three done, I think he's freed up more this summer to put his stamp down. I don't doubt the guy's work ethic one bit.
 
https://mapleleafshotstove.com/2019/05/31/kyle-dubas-on-the-nikita-zaitsev-trade-request-our-goal-is-to-try-to-find-a-fresh-start-for-him-it-is-not-a-definitive-thing-where-he-is-not-going-to-be-back/

He sounds very comfortable
 
"I think it takes some real manipulation of the space-time continuum to forecast that."

An obvious plagiarization of JFJ.  ::) ::) ::) :P
 
From: https://theathletic.com/1028571/2019/06/19/how-the-rangers-could-further-involve-analytics-in-the-front-offices-approach/

Based on publicly available information, we can put together a list that gives us a glimpse of the current analytical landscape. Some teams without in-house analysts do work with outside companies such as HockeyData, Sportlogiq, and ICEBERG for their statistical data. Those systems are considered to be an essential bridge between publicly available data and camera-based tracking information. And there are some organizations with little analytical insight, if at all.



What up.

Just a casual reminder that player tracking is coming and with it, massive datasets per game across the league, and if you want to leverage that dataset for an edge against the competition with access to the same data, it comes down to who can separate the signal from the noise and distill the information into actionable tactics and evaluations.
 
herman said:
https://twitter.com/kyledubas/status/1132476347555766272
https://twitter.com/hockey_db/status/1132489417564803073
Mansbridge stole my Frikken quote. Bastedo! I wrote it years ago about three weeks ago.
 
herman said:
From: https://theathletic.com/1028571/2019/06/19/how-the-rangers-could-further-involve-analytics-in-the-front-offices-approach/

Based on publicly available information, we can put together a list that gives us a glimpse of the current analytical landscape. Some teams without in-house analysts do work with outside companies such as HockeyData, Sportlogiq, and ICEBERG for their statistical data. Those systems are considered to be an essential bridge between publicly available data and camera-based tracking information. And there are some organizations with little analytical insight, if at all.



What up.

Just a casual reminder that player tracking is coming and with it, massive datasets per game across the league, and if you want to leverage that dataset for an edge against the competition with access to the same data, it comes down to who can separate the signal from the noise and distill the information into actionable tactics and evaluations.

Late commenting but I'll just re-burp my opinion that advanced stats will only really become advanced once player tracking comes in.  Then it's Katy Bar The Door, as PQ used to say.
 
https://mapleleafshotstove.com/2019/06/21/kyle-dubas-id-rather-if-we-are-going-to-pay-our-players-pay-our-top-guys-and-then-force-our-staff-to-get-creative-around-the-edges-of-the-team/

All the words basically to say, we will evaluate our options.

That and the thinly veiled finger pointing at the Marner camp for all the bluster.
 

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