Inside the stunning fall of the Maple Leafs: Chaos, dysfunction and AI

TORONTO — It spoke to the gravity of the situation that he felt compelled to be there at all, inside the war room at the Toronto Maple Leafs’ suburban practice facility ahead of the March 6 trade deadline.Seldom does a finely tailored suit from the C-suite rub shoulders directly with scouts who spend hundreds of days pounding the pavement each year looking for players, but there was Keith Pelley, the president and CEO of MLSE, overseeing the action.Advertisement