Leafs have reportedly interviewed a mystery candidate who might be the new favourite for the GM job

"As much as you could name someone a favourite just days into the process, I think that [Treliving] would be one. Now, I'm getting mixed intel on this, someone else told me that there was another person who came [to Toronto], but I haven't been able to prove who it was. I don't believe it was Peter Chiarelli, it certainly wasn't Doug Armstrong, who was winning a gold medal on Sunday. Marc Bergevin was overseas too, I heard he got interviewed by Zoom. As I mentioned, I heard they talked to Doug Wilson, but I don't think it was him. I don't think it was Mark Hunter - I undoubtedly think there's people there that the Leafs have talked to that we haven't figured out yet. There's no question about that.

I think this is one of those things where Shanahan and the Leafs have basically reached out to a lot of people. I think this is one of those [situations] that, when it's over.. names will trickle through and we'll hear, because I do think that they've made a lot of calls. I just think the question is; 'who's actually getting interviews?'.


I'm curious about the timeline here. The Maple Leafs said they want to do a thorough search and I think, on a level, they do. I'm just not convinced they think they have a lot of time here. How much runway do they really think they have?" - Friedman with the latest on the Leafs' GM search