In what might be the least surprising bit of news we read about this summer, it’s been reported that the Pittsburgh Penguins will be hiring former Toronto Maple Leafs assistant general manager and cap strategist Brandon Pridham. Eliteprospects’ Cam Robinson was first to report, and it was later backed up by Sportsnet insider Elliotte Friedman.

Pridham, who had been with the Leafs’ organization since 2014-15, will be reuniting with former Maple Leafs and current Penguins general manager Kyle Dubas. Pridham will be joining the organization as a hockey operations consultant with similar responsibilities to the ones he held in Toronto, mostly overseeing the salary cap.

The fact that Pridham eventually ended up in Pittsburgh was not a shocker as alluded to at the beginning of the piece. Kyle Dubas loves his guys, and his current front office is a carbon copy of what the Leafs had in Dubas’ last season in Toronto, with Jason Spezza serving as assistant GM and Wes Clark joining the organization as their director of player personnel prior to last season.

Pridham was the first name on a lengthy list of Maple Leafs front office executives to leave his post following the hiring of general manager John Chayka. It’s standard practice for a new general manager to hire his own staff, and that’s been no different for Chayka, who has brought in the likes of Judd Brackett as an assistant general manager of player evaluation and Freddie Hamilton as chief of staff. The one exception to this was assistant general manager Ryan Hardy, who oversees the Marlies and is fresh off a Calder Cup win in that realm.

This was the second bit of news involving the Penguins and former Maple Leafs of the day, with the news that Nick Robertson inked a two-year contract worth $3.25 million annually.