The Toronto Maple Leafs – through the first 15 percent of the season – have not displayed the hard-to-play-against toughness that new general manager Brad Treliving promised upon his arrival.
It seems – for the time being – that Toronto Maple Leafs history has unfortunately repeated itself. This time there are less of the bombastic post-game media tirades that got former GM Brian Burke a one-way ticket out of town.
Even though Treliving’s adjective choices to describe what he would add to the Leafs lineup were bereft of ‘pugnacious’, ‘testosterone’ and ‘truculence’, the additions implemented by Treliving have sorely lacked anything close to those words.