Toronto’s senior director of player evaluations, Jim Paliafito, takes the lead in recruiting European pros and college players. Dubas is quick to shift all the credit to Paliafito, who has also secured the services of free agents Nikita Zaitsev, Calle Rosen, Igor Ozhiganov and Par Lindholm in recent years. All but Ozhiganov are still on NHL rosters.
"He’s got a great read early on, on who the players are that we’re probably going to look after. He does a great job communicating back to the organization and to our player personnel department, and have a look at the players, whether it’s live or break down their video, and then he’s able to begin having conversations with them and their agents during the year to kind of get a handle on it," Dubas explained from home quarantine.
"We’ve had to change some of the recruiting side of it and move into a virtual format or FaceTime or Zoom meeting or what have you. But because of the job that Jim does, we’ve already gotten relationships there. So, it’s not trying to meet somebody over the phone or meet somebody over a virtual setting; you’ve already got a bit of a relationship there," Dubas said.
"There are players that we’re interested in and we’re competing with many other teams to try to gain recruitment. And our hope is that the ability of the players that have come over from Europe since Jim been with us to quickly transition to pro hockey in North America will be a big help for us."
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