Toronto Maple Leafs: Brad Treliving Has a Bad Case of Deja Vu

The Toronto Maple Leafs General Manager, Brad Treliving, is living a serious case of deja vu. Time will tell if it benefits or haunts him and the franchise.

Brad Treliving is in his first year at the helm of the Toronto Maple Leafs. As the team’s new general manager, he’s already found himself in a very familiar situation.

Prior to joining the Toronto Maple Leafs and before Treliving and his former club, the Calgary Flames “mutually agreed to part ways”, there was a massive piece of business that needed to get done.

The team’s star player, Johnny Gaudreau, was in the final year of his contract. Treliving needed to manage either signing him to an extension that would keep him with the Flames or…