Maple Leafs reverse Shanahan era change on Saturday.

Earlier this summer the Toronto Maple Leafs organization, and perhaps more importantly their ownership group Maple Leafs Sports and Entertainment, made the decision to move forward without the services of long time team president Brendan Shanahan.

It was a move that many had anticipated given the lack of success, relatively speaking, that the Maple Leafs had experienced under his tenure but it may have only been the first step of many when it comes to moving on from the Shanahan era of the Maple Leafs.

On Saturday, the Maple Leafs introduced another change following the dismissal of Shanahan earlier this summer, one that reverses a change that was introduced while Shanahan served as president and Kyle Dubas served as general manager. That change was a decision to allow their rookie prospects to wear the Maple Leafs colors during rookie development camp and the exhibition games that are included under that umbrella, a huge shift for the players involved in this year's camp.

In 2023 a decision had been made to put the prospects in practice jerseys during these exhibition games, with the feeling being that they still had a long way to go before earning the real jersey, but there were no signs of any practice jerseys on Saturday when the Leafs his the ice.

It is unclear why the Maple Leafs have made the change, as it was not accompanied by any kind of major announcement, but I suspect the decision was motivated by a desire to make the young prospects feel included as a part of the organization.

It wouldn't be fair to lay the blame entirely at the feet of Shanahan, after all Dubas has continued the practice with his new team in Pittsburgh, but it does represent another attempt at shifting away from the culture that had been instilled within the Leafs organization under Shanahan's leadership.