Toronto Maple Leafs: Ranking All 32 NHL General Managers

With the NHL about to expand to 32 teams, we will see where the Toronto Maple Leafs and Kyle Dubas fit by ranking every general manager in the league.

The Toronto Maple Leafs have made a number of moves with Kyle Dubas at the helm. Some of those have worked out very well while others are less desirable. The same can be said for all general managers in the league but it’s their goal to have more more positives than negatives and ultimately win the Stanley Cup.

While we have ranked the best general managers in Maple Leafs history, this isn’t that sort of list. This is a ranking of every GM in the NHL based on all the moves they’ve made for their club up until this publication in the summer of 2021.

Ranking is always subjective but in order to try and make this as scientific as possible, we will identify both the positive and negative decisions each general manager has made with their current team. We will evaluate their franchise’s successes and failures, giving more weight to the more recent transactions. Using this as a quasi algorithm helped establish the rankings of all the NHL GMs at the conclusion of the 2020-21 season.

32nd Ranked GM – Chris Drury (New York Rangers)

The New York Rangers promoted their Associate General Manager in May, making Chris Drury the new President of the team and their General Manager. It’s a bold move for the franchise who saw Drury play four season for the team as recently as 2011.

It’s very early in Drury’s tenure. So much so that he’s only made two signings so far. He inked his restricted free agent Ryan Lindgren to a three year $9M contract. Drury also locked up Nils Lundkvist to a standard three year $5.325M entry level deal. (All miscellaneous info from nhl.com , stats hockeyreference.com. all cap info capfriendly.com).

Drury is the NHL’s newest GM so he comes in last by default.