Where’s Shanahan?

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That was shanny with his glasses.

It was Pridham, Pridham wears glasses and there’s a video from earlier in the night of Spezza, Dubas and Pridham celebrating the Matthews goal.

Also Shanny is 6’3. Dubas is 6 foot.

Shanny doesn’t go up in the press box anymore. I don’t even think he travels on the road with the team much any more.
 
Shanahan is a big dude, not a puny accountant
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I wondered where he was all series long. I wonder if he was preemptively let go for whatever plethora of possible reasons but this is speculative at best, and I also hope his and his families health is well. Very odd not seeing him.
 
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Shabby and Dubas were hanging around the ice together when I got to meet the team back in February. Wouldn't guess there was a rift with the way they were acting towards each other.
 
In the box with Dubas? Shanahan?
Please, that guy is way too small to be Shanny.

And I doubt there is a rift, all that's been reported is that the lack of a new deal for Dubas is not based on MLSE deciding whether or not to bring him back but that Kyle wanted to wait until this season was over as the two sides (may have been) a ways apart on the financials of the deal.
 
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Yep.

Shanahan wears glasses too - Pridham doesn't (at least not in any public photos/videos).

That's Shanny in the video

Thats Pridham. Shanny is 6'3 he would tower over dubas. Shanny also wasn't in the box all night.

Shanny probably watching from toronto or some other place. presidents usually are not there in the playoffs. even last season shanny wasnt there for all teh games. he only showed up for game6 and game7 and leafs lost. shanny probably decided to not show up to see if something changes lol
 
Steve Simmons from the Toronto Sun confirms that Maple Leafs GM Kyle Dubas was in the box alongside his trusted assistants, Jason Spezza and Brandon Pridham.


When the puck crossed the goal line, and the frenzy of screaming and celebration began, Sheldon Keefe’s face was beyond crimson red as he jumped up and down behind the Maple Leafs bench, shaking hands, leaping and hugging his fellow coaches.

Knowing, in that single explosive moment, that the intensity of the longtime pressure had been reduced.

It wasn’t all that different in the box in which general manager Kyle Dubas sat alongside his trusted assistants, Jason Spezza and Brandon Pridham. When captain John Tavares’ unlikely shot banked off Darren Raddysh’s skate and slid past Andrei Vasilevskiy in overtime to give the Maple Leafs their first playoff series victory in 19 years, Dubas leaped, swore and excitedly shouted, his face an even brighter shade of red, still jumping and trying to hug Spezza and Pridham as they were bopping up and down on their own.

All of them knowing that suddenly all those years of answering all those questions and dealing with so many doubts — many of them legitimate — were temporarily over.

There should be no talk now of replacing Dubas as general manager or Keefe as coach or Brendan Shanahan as president of the club, especially after a night in which so many of their decisions eventually slayed the hockey dragon that has been the Tampa Bay Lightning.

The Leafs didn’t outplay the Lightning in the series — and if Jon Cooper is involved, they certainly didn’t outcoach him — but they won the mandatory four of six games, three of them in Tampa, all three of those in overtime.

In a first-round kind of way, it reminded me of the previous time a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup. That was in 1993. The Montreal Canadiens were not the best team in the NHL. They just happened to win 10 straight overtime games, with Patrick Roy in goal, to eventually find a way to beat Wayne Gretzky’s Los Angeles Kings in the Stanley Cup final.
 
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