The Maple Leafs aren't operating like a serious hockey team

“At the end of the day, this is the most important decision that I will likely make in my tenure at MLSE.”The “decision” that Keith Pelley, the president and CEO of MLSE, was referring to in late March was the hiring of the next front office of the Toronto Maple Leafs.This was it then? With the most important decision of his tenure, at a crucial pivot point for the franchise, the best Pelley could do — the best the Leafs, one of the league’s most iconic and richest franchises, could do — was hire John Chayka as general manager and the apparent head of hockey operations and Mats Sundin as senior executive adviser of hockey operations?Advertisement