With the puck set to drop on the NHL regular season for the Toronto Maple Leafs, TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger sat down with general manager Brad Treliving for an extensive 1-on-1 interview.
, TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger sat down with general manager Brad Treliving to discuss the team's eventful off-season, the changes made on the ice and behind the bench, Mitch Marner's contract negotiations and transitioning the captaincy from – any cap team for that matter – but you do look at individual standouts for training camp and I think it’s fair to sat Nick Robertson has been that.
Dreger: A small window to compare here when you look at your training camp last year compared to this training camp this season. What’s the biggest difference for you? It looks more competitive, but is it more competitive than it was last year? So, I do think we’re deeper. I think it’s been more competitive. I think we probably have more bodies for the number of chairs we have available, which is a good thing. We’ll get through tomorrow , then see where we sit come Wednesday.
Up front, same sort of thing – we’ve gotten some young players that are pushing. We talked last year about– he’s a better player this year than he was last year. But there’s expectations and he’s still a young player.had a great rookie camp. Unfortunately he hurt himself, but he’s pushing over. Young Grebenkin is pushing over. We’ve brought inon a PTO, Pacioretty on a PTO – those guys have been in the league and had success in the league.
So we made the change and then we went out. And sitting with Craig and going through the process – first of all, going through the interview process and everybody we talked to – and we talked to a lot of players. And it wasn’t just the guys who played on the power play. I’ve been really impressed so far. We’ve joked that, “everybody’s happy now and everybody’s undefeated,” but the live bullets will start on Wednesday. He’s just a real impressive guy and I’ve really enjoyed not only the camp, but the summer we’ve spent together and watching his interaction with the players. An impressive guy.
So, that’s really the thought process and we talked about it internally. Shanny, myself, Brandon Pridham, Shane Doan and our management group – everybody was in alignment. Treliving: Well, any and every contract has its own life, right? Regardless of the amount of money. It took us a while to get Nick Robertson signed this summer.
Treliving: What happened last week was really unfortunate. You never want to see any player injured ever. There’s players trying to make an impression, there’s players trying to make a team, and there’s NHL players who are just trying to get up to speed. What happened with Patrik , it’s really unfortunate and you never want to see it with any player.
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