Toronto Maple Leafs fire general manager Brad Treliving

Why should I put a bunch of Cadillacs on the ice, when I can sell out with a bunch of volkswagens

Harold Ballard

The Athletic – Jonas Siegel – Toronto Maple Leafs fire general manager Brad Treliving

Blame no one.

Bill Parcells

ESPN – Kristen Shilton – Toronto Maple Leafs fire general manager Brad Treliving

Look after your people.

Red Auerbach

SportsNet – Luke Fox – ‘We just didn’t deliver’: Brad Treliving’s firing shocks Maple Leafs

Never lie; never cheat; never steal. Don’t whine; don’t complain; don’t make excuses.

John Wooden

TSN – CP – Maple Leafs fire GM Treliving in third season

There are no big things, only a logical accumulation of little things done at a very high standard of performance.

John Wooden

TSN – CP – Former Raptors president Ujiri joins ownership group of WNBA’s Tempo

Right after the game, say as little as possible.

Tom Landry

CBC – CP  – Rogers closes deal with BCE to become majority owner of Maple Leafs Sports & Entertainment

SportsNet – ‘I love you, Toronto’: Masai Ujiri grateful for his time with Raptors

CBC – John Chidley-Hill – Masai Ujiri era ends in Toronto as Raptors move on from longtime president

Burning Down The House

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. 

Carl Sagan

SportsNet – Toronto Raptors part ways with exec Masai Ujiri

Once In A Lifetime

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Carl Sagan

TSN – Josh Lewenberg – Ujiri’s dismissal has more to do with business than basketball

Road to Nowhere

Develop a built-in bullshit detector.

Ernest Hemingway

The Athletic – Eric Koreen – Raptors’ firing of Masai Ujiri leaves MLSE’s priorities open to questioning

Psycho Killer

Put the kids in with a few old pappy guys who still like to win and the combination is unbeatable.

Conn Smythe

Sporting News – Scott Rafferty – Raptors championship team: Where Pascal Siakam, Kyle Lowry, Kawhi Leonard and rest of 2019 roster is now

The 2025 offseason includes a thin group of high-level free agents with an exploding salary cap atmosphere, meaning Brian Burke’s “the biggest mistakes get made on July 1″ credo is likely to be truer than ever.

ESPN – Rachel Doerrie – Why the Maple Leafs shouldn’t re-sign Mitch Marner

Phil has a question:

Why isn’t Rachel a GM or assistant GM yet.

Bohemian Rhapsody

TSN – Treliving says Leafs must change ‘between the ears’ after another playoff exit

Phil has a question:

Did Treliving take a bow for the Panthers winning the Stanley Cup again with the players he traded there from Calgary leading the way.

No one remembers who took second place and that will never be me.

Enzo Ferrari

Leaf Fans Point After

Good Vibrations

Sometimes Phil just gotta give in to the Urge.

Phil M. Stockmen