The Toronto Maple Leafs have parted ways with longtime team physician Dr. Noah Forman after 20 years with the franchise.
Monday's report came from the Toronto Sun's Steve Simmons, who has tracked the organization's front office moves closely all year.
Forman wasn't just the Maple Leafs' physician. He also served as medical director for the Toronto Marlies, the club's AHL affiliate, for two decades.
Blue Jays team physician Dr. David Lawrence will step into the role, crossing over from Major League Baseball into Toronto's medical department.
Several other staffers remain in place inside that department, even as coaching and front-office turnover has touched nearly every corner of the franchise since spring.
Forman's exit adds to a run of change inside the organization, which has already reshuffled parts of its coaching staff, development team and front office this year.
Why the timing raises questions in Toronto
The move lands in the middle of a rough stretch. Toronto sits 32-36-14, ranked 28th overall in the league, riding a seven-game losing streak.
The Maple Leafs' last game ended in a 1-3 road loss to the Senators, and they've gone 2-7-1 over their last ten games.
Toronto is averaging 3.1 goals a game while allowing 3.6, numbers that go a long way toward explaining a seven-game slide.
Twenty years is a long tenure for any team physician, and losing that continuity in the middle of a seven-game skid does not read like great timing.
It's the kind of move that feels less like a scheduled transition and more like someone clearing house while the losses keep piling up.
Simmons posted the news directly on X, naming Lawrence as the physician stepping into Forman's old role inside the organization.
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Fans watching the coaching carousel and front-office churn now have one more name to track, and it's not a player.
The Maple Leafs still have to solve what's happening on the ice before they worry about who's handling their bodies off it, and that losing streak is not fixing itself.
Is cutting ties with a 20-year team physician during a seven-game losing streak a red flag for the Maple Leafs?
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