Sportsnet: Luke Fox on the Jeff Marek Present on the Toronto Maple Leafs needing to win not less than one spherical, perhaps two, or else some modifications might need to occur.
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Marek: “Whenever you take a look at the Toronto Maple Leafs for the longest time, it was at all times first-round success, first-round success, first-round success. Should get out of the primary spherical. Final yr they did. They knocked off the Tampa Bay Lightning after which bowed out in opposition to the eventual Stanley Cup Finalists Florida Panthers.
What do you think about to be success this yr for the Toronto Maple Leafs? Like what has to occur in Brad Treliving’s first yr because the supervisor of this workforce?”
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Fox: “I feel you gotta win two rounds. Or, or for those who exit within the second spherical, there’s no excuse going out in first spherical. Which is perhaps too excessive of a bar as a result of they’re going to be underdogs in that first spherical, however what they achieved final season I feel they completely need to win a spherical and for those who’re going to lose within the second spherical, you bought to push it to seven, you bought to go down combating. You bought to depart the fan base saying, ‘Ah they need to have gained that or they might have gained that.’ You’ll be able to’t exit the best way you went out in opposition to Florida final yr.
And you already know, perhaps that’s unfair, as a result of they’re the third seed. They’re going to be underdogs whether or not they get Boston or Florida, however I simply assume with the truth that you’ve got all of your, your prime guys that you just’re paying gobs of cash to, they’re all having good years. (Mitch) Marner is a little bit banged up proper now, however they’re all having sturdy years. They’re all of their prime. They’ve had many, many a playoff disappointments. It’s time to see some precise outcomes and no extra ethical victories. They received to win a pair rounds.”
Marek: “I don’t disagree, however I at all times come again to, what’s the following step of that sentence, and that’s ‘or else clean.’”
Fox: “I feel Sheldon’s gone.”
Marek: “I perceive. Such as you assume, you assume it’s a training determination?”
Fox: “I feel it’s a training determination?”
Marek: “That is two rounds or it’s a training determination?”
Fox: “Nicely, they’ve already, they’ve already given (Auston) Matthews and (William) Nylander they’re their monster raises. Marner has full no transfer. I, I don’t you already know, that’s a really sophisticated commerce to make. What else are you gonna do?
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I feel you already know, I feel Brad Treliving saved this bullet for a motive. And I feel in the event that they don’t carry out strongly within the playoffs, and I’m not, who is aware of the way it goes down, it may not be Keefe’s fault. I simply really feel like one thing has to alter and that’s the best change to make.”
