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No, Dubas's defenders overrate him big time.
He rushed the process of the Leafs rebuild in 2018-19. They shouldn't have signed Tavares and shouldn't have traded for Muzzin. They should've went for smaller moves while continuing to accumulate prospects. He started emptying the Leafs's picks and prospects pool in 18-19 when he should've waited for 2020-21.
He signed bad deals for Nylander, Marner and Matthews. Edmonton was able to lock McDavid and Draisaitl long term(8 years) why couldn't Dubas do the same with his guys?
He consistently built a defense unit that was too weak. At their best they only had 3 top 4 d-men(Rielly, Muzzin and Brodie), gave away Kadri and Brown, didn't have a true number 1 goalie for all 3 of his final seasons there, almost completely emptied the Leafs's picks in the 2022 and 23 deadlines, gave way too much for an aging Giordano and Blackwell, I could go on.
Dubas is a C- GM at best. His over-reliance on analytics, on smaller players and on his former Greyhounds players set the Leafs back 3-4 years.
Had they waited 2-3 years to go all in, they would've already won a cup, by now, IMO. But he rushed their process when the kids weren't ready, held on to a guy like Johnsson when he should've moved him ASAP when his value was at its highest to get D help and completely handcuffed the Leafs's cap.
I can't believe so many people are still so adamant he was so great in TOR.
Sure, he had good moments(*), but overall he was very "meh", if not bad.
*Brodie was a good signing at that amount
*Campbell gave them decent service
*McCabe is really solid
*Bunting was really good for that contract
*Samsonov was a grea gamble that, IMO, worked out