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Brad Treliving is new Leafs GM

Given what I've read and heard so far, MLSE wants to run it back with the same group (but are shielding themselves from the backlash by dropping Dubas).

Can you imagine the circus if Dubas kept Keefe and didn't make a move on the core this offseason?

But now, with Treliving, a vaunted Hockey Man with great relationships up and down the organizations within the league, it just makes no sense to blow up the core and fire a coach before he even sees what he has.

I don't think the firing has anything to do with family or commitment or autonomy. It's "I would consider anything with our group that would allow us a better chance to win the Stanley Cup. I would take nothing off the table at all".

One thing we will probably notice more in the next few years, is that Dubas was a proponent of 'failing fast', while Treliving has a history of holding onto poorly aged deals for too long, resulting in so many buyouts.
 
I see him wanting to make a big swing while also not moving any of the big-4... which yes goes without saying is going to be pretty tricky.
 
herman said:
Given what I've read and heard so far, MLSE wants to run it back with the same group (but are shielding themselves from the backlash by dropping Dubas).

Can you imagine the circus if Dubas kept Keefe and didn't make a move on the core this offseason?

But now, with Treliving, a vaunted Hockey Man with great relationships up and down the organizations within the league, it just makes no sense to blow up the core and fire a coach before he even sees what he has.

I don't think the firing has anything to do with family or commitment or autonomy. It's "I would consider anything with our group that would allow us a better chance to win the Stanley Cup. I would take nothing off the table at all".

One thing we will probably notice more in the next few years, is that Dubas was a proponent of 'failing fast', while Treliving has a history of holding onto poorly aged deals for too long, resulting in so many buyouts.
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I really have a hard time believing Dubas wasn't renewed because he said he'd do anything to help the team. Morbidly I'm waiting for Shanny to be fired to get the full expose now, but I just don't feel like that's likely as it's just a routine thing that many GMs say, just Kyle finally said it out loud.
 
Bender said:
I really have a hard time believing Dubas wasn't renewed because he said he'd do anything to help the team. Morbidly I'm waiting for Shanny to be fired to get the full expose now, but I just don't feel like that's likely as it's just a routine thing that many GMs say, just Kyle finally said it out loud.
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That was probably the topic of the Wednesday meeting after locker cleanout: what can this roster actually offer to improve? Aside from sewering your relationship with Tavares, moving Marner before July 1 is the only real long-term answer.
 
https://twitter.com/reporterchris/status/1664283162195935239

If Treliving gets busy that 1st might not even be there either.
 
Brad watched a lot of Shanahan pressers to get warmed up for this, with some direct quotes

I enjoy his aw shucks approach so far. He's saying a lot of the right things and I can see why Shanahan picked Treliving.
 
Treliving notes that he has a long standing relationship with Pridham dating back to when he was in Arizona and Pridham was with the NHL.
 
This has nothing to do with how he'll do as GM, but Treliving is significantly less of a robot than I sorta figured he'd be.

"Good to see Gio still playing at 75" lol
 
All in all - pretty decent press conference.  A lot of safe answers (particularly when discussing Keefe), but good answers nonetheless.
 
Words are wind, but there's plenty of overlap and cohesiveness with Shanahan. Treliving strikes me as an older Dubas with less hockey creativity and more corporate-friendly charisma; the man knows how to work the room and manage up. It will be interesting to see how this plays out given the resources already established.
 
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