So long, Paul

TSN is reporting that Toronto has fired Paul Maurice after two seasons as head coach of the Maple Leafs. It's not a big surprise or anything, but you have to wonder: if Cliff Fletcher, the interim GM, isn't going to stay in his job, why would he be allowed to fire Maurice? How do they know if the new GM wasn't going to keep him on as coach? Unless of course Paul was going to be fired anyway and they just waited for the go-ahead. I don't know. Fun times in Toronto.

Regarding the Leafs' search for a new coach, Fletcher said in his press conference today that the head coaching job of the Toronto Maple Leafs is "the plum of the NHL" and that any candidate would be willing to wait until Toronto hires a GM before they come storming down the doors of the Air Canada Centre. I've said it before, that franchise is the NHL equivalent of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. The "plum" of the NHL? Good God.