TSN: Pierre LeBrun, Mike Johnson, and Ryan Rishaug on what they suppose the Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brad Treliving will do main as much as the commerce deadline.
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Rishaug: “On the Toronto entrance Pierre. What do you, if I have been to ask you proper now to foretell what the haul finally ends up being, what do you suppose Brad’s reliving is standing there holding when commerce deadline comes and goes? What’s actual, do you suppose?”
LeBrun: “Nicely, there’s a few issues to get at. I’ll attempt to be fast. One is that I actually suppose that the Leaf stretch of video games popping out of All-Star, we’re going to be a part of, I feel, giving Brad Treliving the impetus so as to add. Like I feel he, I feel he needs to see what his workforce has your trigger they’ve been …”
Johnson: “By taking part in properly, or by taking part in poorly?”
LeBrun: “Sure. Nicely. Precisely. I imply …”
Johnson: “In the event that they play poorly he’s going to suppose I gotta add as a result of we’re no good or in the event that they play properly I received so as to add.”
LeBrun: “No, No, I feel in the event that they performed poorly, I feel he’s received to sit down on his property.”
Johnson: “Okay, pulls again.”
LeBrun: “Take heed to the Leafs have traded a lot away going all-in the previous couple of years, that I, you recognize, I feel the Leafs want cause to spend one other first-round decide. Which is what it’s going to need to be for one thing tangible.
The Leafs don’t have a second-round decide for the following three years. The subsequent three seconds are gone. And and you recognize, I reported this final week however to get in on the Tanev dialogue proper now, it’s a second and one other asset is what we’re listening to across the league. The Leafs don’t have that.
Now the Leafs can discover different methods to discover a bundle. There’s no query Brad Treliving, loves Chris Tanev, I imply he had him in Calgary. It’s, it might be an amazing increase to the Leafs blue line.
However I’m simply telling you that I feel, I feel the Flames have made it clear to Toronto, properly, you don’t have a second so if you need Chris Tanev, it’s your first and that’s a giant worth to pay.However then once more, Winnipeg paid first for Sean Monahan final week, so, you recognize, perhaps that’s the sort of yr we’re having on the deadline.
Now. if the Leafs can’t get Tanev they usually nonetheless need to add, there’s (Ilya) Lyubushkin or Sean Walker, there’s (Nick) Seeler. They undoubtedly need to add on the blue line there’s no query about it.”
Johnson: “There, so sure, there, the hole there that (John) Klingberg, and we all know that they want somebody there, however when you have a look at the Leafs the final, I don’t know 25 video games, their downside is nobody may rating besides the massive gamers.”
LeBrun: “Proper.”
Johnson: “Like, like they everybody talks about protection and sure, I get it. They might use an improve there they usually haven’t been excellent, however I let you know what, placing Chris Tanev on the again finish…”
LeBrun: “In all probability each.”
Johnson: “Yeah, proper. So I’m saying prefer it’s not gonna assist you to rating objectives, they usually need assistance, like, Tyler Bertuzzi one in 28. Max Domi two in 22. Matthew Knies zero and 16 (numbers are from earlier than the weekend). No matter they, like all these guys that they have been relying on scoring 20ish objectives are in a depraved drought.
So until that corrects itself, proper? Doesn’t matter what you do defensively, they want offense and it’s been a number of years the place they’ve wanted offense. They don’t often go get it and I feel if the aim we get one thing like they want offense to.”
LeBrun: “Nicely, perhaps they get a little bit of each, that wouldn’t shock me both. However once more, going again to all of the property, I imply, the you recognize, the Athletic’s Scott Wheeler simply in his organizational or he’s in the midst of organizational prospect rankings, I feel the Leafs are ranked twenty eighth.
Like, you recognize, they’ve gone for it plenty of years right here beneath the earlier GM.”
Johnson: “However I suppose I’m simply saying Pierre, going to get a defenseman doesn’t remedy all in Toronto.”
LeBrun: “No, completely. Actually, I feel they want two defensemen, in my view, they want two defensemen and a top-nine board. However how do you try this while you’re sitting in a wildcard spot? I don’t know. Like …”
Johnson: “You don’t.”
