The Toronto Maple Leafs have had a bad summer by any standard.
The loudest fans might be happy that Kyle Dubas is no longer running the Toronto Maple Leafs, but regardless, this hurts the team in ways that will haunt them for years.
They have replaced a fiercely intelligent, progressive, creative thinker who had fresh ideas about the sport with what seems to be a generic hockey lifer indistinguishable from the average hockey executive.
And the first thing Treliving did was betray the Leafs longstanding policy of not giving term and money to replacement players by handing out over $11 million to Max Domi, John Klingberg, Ryan Reaves and David Kampf.