{"id":618244,"date":"2026-05-02T00:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T00:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/618244\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T00:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T00:10:07","slug":"maple-leafs-denied-permission-to-interview-lightning-gm-brisebois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/618244\/","title":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs denied permission to interview Lightning GM BriseBois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/toronto-maple-leafs\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"toronto-maple-leafs\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> wanted a shot to talk to one of the most successful general managers in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>The Leafs were denied permission to interview Tampa Bay Lightning general manager Julien BriseBois for a role at the helm of hockey operations, Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman reported on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/podcasts\/32-thoughts\/upsets-and-aftermaths\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">32 Thoughts: The Podcast<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think anyone is shocked to hear that the Lightning would say no,&#8221; Friedman said. &#8220;I do think they asked permission to speak to him and were rejected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BriseBois&#8217; Lightning currently trail the Montreal Canadiens 3-2 in an Eastern Conference quarterfinal with Game 6 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Since BriseBois became GM of the Lightning in 2018, the team has qualified for the Stanley Cup Playoffs every year.<\/p>\n<p>The Lightning won back-to-back Stanley Cups in 2020 and &#8217;21.<\/p>\n<p>The Leafs have been searching for a general manager since firing Brad Treliving at the end of March.<\/p>\n<p>Friedman has reported the Leafs are working toward contracts for Mats Sundin and John Chayka to lead hockey ops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Maple Leafs wanted a shot to talk to one of the most successful general managers in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-618244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}