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<p>You can always count on the Toronto Maple Leafs to be involved in Saturday Headlines in some capacity. Tonight, it had nothing to do with the on-ice product, and everything to do with its parent company MLSE.</p>
<p>According to Elliotte Friedman, Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment may have found its new boss&#8230;</p>
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<blockquote><p>As MLSE continues to work on hiring a new president, one of the names that has been talked about is COO of the Montreal Canadiens &#8211; Kevin Gilmore.</p></blockquote>
<p>The President&#8217;s position will be vacant soon enough when current President Tim Leiweke moves on to tackle his next project. (TFC made the playoffs, so his work here is done.)</p>
<p>Gilmore is an interesting dude, having broke into hockey in a rather unusual way &#8211; <a href="https://tabaret.uottawa.ca/en/2013-12/hollywood-habs" target="_blank">he was an executive at Disney when the company founded the Might Ducks of Anaheim</a>. Having also worked for Anschutz Entertainment Group (or AEG, which coincidentally was run by Leiweke before he came to MLSE), Gilmore also worked with the NBA and was responsible for <a href="http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2015/05/15/un-signal-de-montreal-a-la-nba" target="_blank">building basketball arenas in Shanghai and Beijing</a> ahead of the 2008 Summer Olympics.</p>
<p>Again, this has little to do with the on-ice product of the Toronto Maple Leafs &#8211; that said, Gilmore has found success in many different sports business ventures and certainly seems like a good candidate.</p>
<p>Even if he is a Habs fan.</p>

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</div></center><p>You can always count on the Toronto Maple Leafs to be involved in Saturday Headlines in some capacity. Tonight, it had nothing to do with the on-ice product, and everything to do with its parent company MLSE.</p><p>According to Elliotte Friedman, Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment may have found its new boss...</p><blockquote>As MLSE continues to work on hiring a new president, one of the names that has been talked about is COO of the Montreal Canadiens - Kevin Gilmore.</blockquote><p>The President's position will be vacant soon enough when current President Tim Leiweke moves on to tackle his next project. (TFC made the playoffs, so his work here is done.)</p><p>Gilmore is an interesting dude, having broke into hockey in a rather unusual way - <a href="https://tabaret.uottawa.ca/en/2013-12/hollywood-habs" target="_blank">he was an executive at Disney when the company founded the Might Ducks of Anaheim</a>. Having also worked for Anschutz Entertainment Group (or AEG, which coincidentally was run by Leiweke before he came to MLSE), Gilmore also worked with the NBA and was responsible for <a href="http://www.journaldemontreal.com/2015/05/15/un-signal-de-montreal-a-la-nba" target="_blank">building basketball arenas in Shanghai and Beijing</a> ahead of the 2008 Summer Olympics.</p><p>Again, this has little to do with the on-ice product of the Toronto Maple Leafs - that said, Gilmore has found success in many different sports business ventures and certainly seems like a good candidate.</p><p>Even if he is a Habs fan.</p>

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