Maple Leafs GM Admits Changes Being Considered

Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Kyle Dubas is very loyal to his group, however his patience is running thin. The Leafs GM recently met with the media and admitted it's a fair statement to make that the team is pondering changes.

It sounds like if the team does not perform this season and win a Stanley Cup Playoff series, changes are on the way. This would likely include either Mitch Marner or William Nylander getting moved, or even captain John Tavares if the team could find a suitor for the veteran forward.

Dubas was a guest on the Bob McCown Podcast and had this to say about making massive changes:

I think it's certainly fair to say that if there aren't changes to our performance in the end that there will be changes to the organization. That comes with the territory in operating in a market like this and operating with a team that hasn't reached its potential in the playoffs. I think it's certainly fair to ponder [changes], and especially given the fact that we're going to return the same core group, which I have great belief in. If I didn't have belief in it, knowing the consequences to the team, we wouldn't have returned it. The time for sentiment and different things like that have come and gone as the years have gone past where we have not broken through to what many deem as our potential.

Here's the full interview below as Leafs Nation are sitting on pins and needles waiting for the season to start as it's an all or nothing type of year in Toronto.