The Maple Leafs Hire Brad Treliving To Be Their General Manager...Now What?

Brad True Living is the 18th

general

manager

of the Toronto Maple Leafs and it's a good thing the Leafs have a

general

manager

because tomorrow is June. I'm Steve, I'm Steve Engel, this is my YouTube channel, so let's talk a little bit about Brad trina who is the new GM of the Leafs, real quick, he thinks you know

what

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This is

what

happens with Brad True Living,

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d as the new Leafs general manager. I'm excited? I'm excited? Am I over the moon? Am I excited to see this get started? um no, it's okay lately he's okay he's a good candidate he could do a very good job he could do a very bad job he's just listening I think there's a real bitter taste in the mouth of this fanbase Right now, for a variety Of reasons, number one, the early exit from the playoffs again, although less early than in previous seasons, was uncomfortable for the span of a week.

Dubis on Monday gave his organization the impression that he might not want to be the GM of the Leafs and on Friday Brendan Shanahan not only told him that his services were no longer needed with the Toronto Maple Leafs but told us almost everything for almost everything, I mean, Brendan Chanhan left out some of the most important parts like Kyle Dubus. wanting to simplify things within mlse, potentially cutting bread and Shanahan out of the picture and Shanahan getting rid of dubis could be at least in part because Shanahan wants to protect his own work, you could call it succession, you could call it Game of Thrones, you could call it. whatever it is, but it's a deal, but it's not going to make anyone feel better because a guy the Leafs thought was right for the job and were prepared to offer him a contract extension and actually did less than a week later, huh.

We're shipping that and getting rid of him, so I think we're all disappointed with the way things ended against the Florida Panthers and then that weirdness happened and then the team replaces him with Brad for life, who is a guy as a manager. general. I don't think his reputation is particularly good. I don't think it's particularly bad. He's made some moves. Some of those moves work. Some of those movements. Did I not guess the question I ask myself as much as I ask myself? you're what any of us were hoping for now before you said uh I was hoping for Kyle Dubis to come back that ship sailed that's it he's gone he's going somewhere else Pittsburgh Ottawa we don't know but he won't be here so let's let that Things are going, so again knowing that Dubis is gone, what did we expect?

Who were these very top candidates that were there and available and wanted this job? Eric Tolski's name was discarded. It doesn't really sound like he's primarily considered Mark Bergevan, we know. I had a Zoom interview with the Leafs, which is fascinating and it was also a Zoom interview. As far as we know, True Life is the only guy who had a face-to-face interview. Several pundits, I mean Elliott Friedman hinted that a couple other candidates may have been interviewed, but at the end of the day it seemed like the troll life was sheet heaven from the start.

If they had gotten some new blood, they could have done it. a lot of great things and they're up for a promotion and maybe they could have done it, but let me ask you, didn't they just do it? They

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d dubis to be the assistant general manager of the Leafs when he was still in his When he was 20 they waited a few years, he was mentored by Lou Amarillo and then he was his own general manager for half a decade and did a lot of good things here, he didn't accomplish much , but some of the best regular seasons in team history and Ironically, they won

their

first Series in 19 years, which ultimately got him fired, but now they are going with a much older guy who has been the general manager of the National League of Hockey, Brad Treliving, who will turn 54 in August.

I know from eliteprospects.com Do you want to know what else I found out about Brad living on that website? Bradshaw played for Brandon's weak Kings and The Who's Regina Paths and I can only assume every draft pick the Leafs get next. half a decade will come from one of those two teams, he also played in the ECHL for a team called Columbus Chill, which I guess is what he says to Yarmo Kecalinen when he calls him annoying a bit of IHL a couple short cups of coffee. In the AHL, most of Bradshaw Living's hockey career has been in management, which is surprising because Elite prospects include Brad for a living and, seriously, I'm six-foot-four and 225 pounds for Give you an idea of ​​how big it is, I'm pretty sure.

Sure he's about the size of Edge the wrestler and that's why he's automatically better than Kyle Dubus who's about six foot one, he's still pretty tall but he's not six foot four, you can't teach those intangibles come on but in Seriously, nobody. He should care about that, no one should care about the fact that his father is Jim, who is reviving the guy from Shark Tank and the owner of Boston Pizza, because neither of those things help him be a better general manager, ironically, despite that the timelines were a little different, Bradshaw. Living's tenure in Calgary ended a bit like Kyle Dubus' tenure in Toronto last season, the Calgary Flames achieved tremendous success in the regular season that they took to the playoffs and won before facing a division rival in the second round and quickly lose in five and from there there was a granted exit that took a year where there were many rumors about Bradford living without being allowed to do his job properly and being undermined by other members of the Flames organization and not wanting Daryl Sutter to continue being the coach who Usually, it's the general manager's responsibility to hire and fire that guy, but it didn't seem like it was Brad's.

Can someone tell me that the owner also wanted Bill Peters and Brad Treliving not because that would make me feel better too but it's interesting. To me, for the last two weeks, Brendan Shanahan and the Maple Leaf sports and entertainment boards involving meddling with the Leafs has been a very hot topic and yet that is something he continued to make a living during his time in Calgary. It's a special situation. probably not. I think a lot of people who spend millions and millions, if not billions, of dollars on

their

hockey team want something to say. I think when they start making decisions about hockey it becomes a huge problem because what the hell do you know I could do? sit here on my youtube channel and scream and scream that the sheet should change one of the main four, but thank god no one employs me to make that decision, they generally leave the decisions in the hands of people with knowledge and experience, so that this is what we did right.

Forget Brad for living for a second, what do the Leafs have in front of them in the immediate future, besides a bunch of free agents, restricted free agents? They always have those things like number one Austin Matthews, plus they have a no-movement clause that goes into effect on July 1st. he is owed a contract extension, if that contract extension is not signed sometime in July you should seriously consider trading him, it doesn't look like he's going to go that route, it looks like the Leafs will be able to get this job. In fact, it's been reported that True Living has a good working relationship with Judd Moldaver, who is Matthew's agent, and that's good, but he may have to make that decision.

Now take everything I just said about Austin Matthews and apply it to William Nylander because he needs a contract. extension they move him too the draft is coming up in just under a month and based on previous reports I don't know if this has changed real life he won't be allowed to participate in what the Leafs do at the draft table he has . information from his time in the flames and he obviously worked on it all year and the Flames who were paying Bridge's living until recently obviously don't want him to take that information to the Leafs, ultimately the GM probably doesn't have as much power in that. situation anyway, that's why you hire a scouting staff, but potentially after this year's draft you could make big changes to that scouting staff, but until then, the sheet scouting staff right now will be your staff scouting in a month for the draft and, of course, outside. from Matthews and Nylander it doesn't look like John Tavares is going anywhere, he controls him with his full no-movement clause, but there is the idea of ​​potentially moving Mitch, one of the changes dubis made to his own thinking in that final press.

The conference that effectively ended up getting him fired was the willingness to move on from one of the top four. Now, a report from Chris Johnston of the CJ show on sdpn indicates that all of the top guys on the Toronto Maple Leafs were contacted by Brendan Shanahan and they all came away from that conversation with the idea and feeling that they would all return to the Leafs. But ultimately that decision will now fall to the Bradford Living feat and if he wants to make a big move, he can do it, what we know from his time in Calgary is that he is willing to make that big move now.

I know what you're thinking, we'll get to that in a second, but remember the Dougie Hamilton trade, which is a trade we talked about on today's Steve dangle podcast. I think the Flames actually did pretty well. The Flames traded for Michael Ferland, who was never the same Calgary Flame and battled many injuries. Carolina got Dougie Hamilton out of that deal and the rights to Adam Fox, which I know went to Carolina. Here's the tricky thing with Adam Fox: he was drafted by the Calgary Flame, so you can look at that and say: Oh, someone in the Scouting Department did their homework on him.

The problem is that Fox went to college and didn't want to sign with the Flame and then. He was traded to the Hurricanes and he didn't want to sign with them either, so even though the Hurricanes got Adam Fox out of this deal, they ended up giving him to the Rangers, who he was going to go to all along, and they got him. two second round picks for him, this guy is nominated for Norris, he'll probably win. Two second round picks like Devon Taves went for two second round picks and that return sucked for him, this is Adam Foxman, in return the Calgary Flames got Elias Lindholm. who was runner-up for the Selkey ​​Trophy last year, 40-goal scorer last year and also Noah Hanifin, who has been a consistent defender for them for a long time at that point.

I loved that deal for the Flames, no, but time has shown it. It's actually been going pretty well, then there's what happened last summer and a somewhat similar situation: the Florida Panthers and the Calgary Flames getting together in a not-so-great situation for either Camp Florida Panthers. They just won the President's trophy, they were incredible and they swept. in the second round by the lightning that ended up going to the Stanley Cup final, then there was the Calgary Flames who had a similar kind of disappointment, a really good regular season fell apart in the second round, the Panthers had Jonathan Huber, who broke records, and needed a new deal and Mackenzie Wieger a really good defenseman needed a new deal in the Calgary Flames had Matthew Kuchuk who needed a new deal and didn't want to come back supposedly there are conflicting reports about what happened well we know what happened Hubert either took a big step back and dropped like 60 points from previous seasons total and if that happens, it doesn't matter what makes Mackenzie weaker.

Meanwhile, Matthew Chuck is nominated for the heart trophy, so I don't know if I'm willing to put my stamp on him being good. or you are bad at your job, you are definitely willing to make a big move, you are willing to take a risk that could work very well for your team and organization or be a failure, yes, but if you are not willing to take a risk, yes you're not willing to potentially fail, your options are to just sit back and run over and over again with a team that simply hasn't rewarded you, for example, leave Van watching this right now.

Can I ask what your appetite is for running? backs up this core, the 4 center forwards and we can add Morgan Riley in there too, he's been here the whole time and earns more than William Nylander, is there an opera? Is there any appetite to run this backwards? Are they making progress? Yes five wins with 16 in the playoffs as if you were willing to go back. I'll be honest, I won't, if the Leafs don't make some kind of trade, I'll feel awful.disappointed and what's funny is what The odds of the Leafs winning a Nylander or Marner trade are pretty low on paper.

Will he make that big move for the Leafs? We'll have to wait and see now where that leaves other members of the Leafs organization as we begin. the front office Brandon prithum Haley Wickenheiser the two assistant general managers we haven't heard anything about his departure there were rumors with pritam but those seem to have cooled down significantly Sheldon Keefe as head coach uh we'll see, I'm starting to not think he's going to be fired Who would replace him? There are a lot of head coaches available that go a little off the board and I just put on my tinfoil hat, supposedly for a living, I didn't get along with Daryl Sutter and didn't want him coaching the team.Calgary Flames no longer this season, Well, who are you going to hire?

Who is available? One guy who was on the Flames bench last season was Kirk Muller, a guy who's been sniffing around for a job for a while. It's fascinating to see how it works because the Leafs are already in the system, the coach in Spencer Carvery, who will now be the head coach of the Washington Capitals, this is what I would say if you are super excited about the idea of ​​Bradford living being hired by the Toronto Maple Leafs, cool your planes, maybe because the Brads you saw in Calgary won't necessarily be the Brads you see in Toronto, it's just a different situation, different president, different resources, different people, different everything and if You don't like Brad Tra Living's hiring, give them a chance. like giving him this is the thing if you think he's going to fail well he's here now he's the GM at least give him a chance to fail if you root for the Toronto Maple Leafs and want them to succeed you shouldn't root against Bradford Living's success Just saying and now tomorrow we look forward to Brennan Shanahan and Brad for Living's press conference.

I'm sure it will be awkward with some weird questions for now. That's all for this. Thank you very much for watching, please click like. If you like this video click subscribe if you really liked it tell all your friends I hope it's not bad to live like that it is and because then it will be Brad taking over for now it's Bratch relief I'm going to turn it off