Toronto maple leaf key player suffers career-ending injuryGM of the Maple Leafs Brad Treliving discusses the team’s sluggish start, injuries, and how to go better.
Since being hired on May 31 to become general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Brad Treliving has made a name for himself as a personable type who like to lean more towards optimism than pessimism.
However, during an unexpected media event on Monday, Treliving made his first truly harsh comments about this Leafs club. Treliving anticipates a shift on the ice and believes he is getting closer to making one off it by drawing attention to their erratic performance.
Since being hired on May 31 to become general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Brad Treliving has made a name for himself as a personable type who like to lean more towards optimism than pessimism.
However, during an unexpected media event on Monday, Treliving made his first truly harsh comments about this Leafs club. Treliving anticipates a shift on the ice and believes he is getting closer to making one off it by drawing attention to their erratic performance.
It also followed a terse Sheldon Keefe availability.
“There’s positive things happening with our group. You just maybe have to look deeper to find them sometimes,” Keefe said. “Your job is to report on what’s happening with the results. My job is to police the process and dig in deeper and make decisions.”
And so this suggests Treliving spoke, at least in part, to put out some of the growing fires around this team.
The blaze closest to being classified as raging? The play, and the future, of some of Treliving’s high-profile offseason signings.
“Obviously we did some things over the course of the summer. Some have gone well. Some are a work in progress. Some haven’t gone as well,” Treliving said.
He’s right: Tyler Bertuzzi has moved on from some early season stumbles and found his game as a scoring winger, with five points in his last five games. Max Domi is trending in the right direction as a playmaking third-line centre with linemates he has chemistry with.
But the drop off after those two players is jarring: John Klingberg is currently on LTIR with a hip injury and it’s fair to wonder if he’s already played his final game as a Leaf. And Ryan Reaves has essentially negatively impacted the Leafs when he’s on the ice.
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