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 had 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 desires to see what his group has your trigger they’ve been …”
Johnson: “By enjoying properly, or by enjoying 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 acquired so as to add.”
LeBrun: “No, No, I feel in the event that they performed poorly, I feel he’s acquired to take a seat on his belongings.”
Johnson: “Okay, pulls again.”
LeBrun: “Hearken to the Leafs have traded a lot away going all-in the previous couple of years, that I, you understand, I feel the Leafs want cause to spend one other first-round decide. Which is what it’s going to must be for one thing tangible.
The Leafs don’t have a second-round decide for the subsequent three years. The subsequent three seconds are gone. And and you understand, 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 will be an incredible enhance 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 an enormous value to pay.However then once more, Winnipeg paid first for Sean Monahan final week, so, you understand, perhaps that’s the sort of yr we’re having on the deadline.
Now. if the Leafs can’t get Tanev and so they nonetheless wish to add, there’s (Ilya) Lyubushkin or Sean Walker, there’s (Nick) Seeler. They undoubtedly wish 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 in case you take 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 and so they 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 enable you rating objectives, and so they 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 had 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 normally go get it and I feel if the objective 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 belongings, I imply, the you understand, the Athletic’s Scott Wheeler simply in his organizational or he’s in the course of organizational prospect rankings, I feel the Leafs are ranked twenty eighth.
Like, you understand, they’ve gone for it a lot of years right here below the earlier GM.”
Johnson: “However I suppose I’m simply saying Pierre, going to get a defenseman doesn’t treatment 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 do this whenever you’re sitting in a wildcard spot? I don’t know. Like …”
Johnson: “You don’t.”
