File Photo: Ken Dryden announcing he will leave the Toronto Maple Leafs to run as a Liberal candidate, May 17, 2004.

Ken Dryden accepts GM position with Maple Leafs

Updated Tue. Apr. 1 2008 6:50 AM ET

CTV.ca News Staff

Dryden turns over a old Leaf

CTV News has learned that Liberal MP Ken Dryden has accepted the position as General Manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Dryden will replace current interim GM, Cliff Fletcher, who will remain with the organization as an executive.

Dryden is expected to assume his new duties as general manager in late July, when Fletcher's six-month term ends.

His decision to bow out of politics comes at a time when Liberal fortunes have hit an all time low in Quebec under Liberal Leader, Stephane Dion.

"For the Liberals, they are in a worse position than they were in the middle of the sponsorship scandal," political commentator Jean Lapierre told CTV last week.

Dryden graduated from Cornell University with a history degree and later earned a law degree at McGill University.

He has written four best-selling critically acclaimed books, The Game, Home Game, The Moved and the Shaken, and In School.

He first joined the Toronto Maple Leafs in May 1997 as president of the hockey club.

Ken Dryden did not respond to a request for an interview late Monday evening.

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