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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
Also doesn't help when you do have some decent players you trade them for Erik Gustafsson.
I mean isn't Sandin what they need right now.
Oh well. I enjoy watching them crash and burn and do it over again.
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Well more that they traded Sandin for a 1st...so lets not ignore the biggest part of that trade.
But to me that's more about the overall direction they have taken with the roster.
Leafs made a decision to be "bigger and harder to play against" under Treliving, and it hasn't really worked.
Here are the pieces Treliving has added on the roster:
Bertuzzi
Domi
Reaves
Edmundson
Benoit
Lyubushkin
Now to be fair to Treliving...he didn't have a lot to work with. His team was out of cap space, and had very little in the way of prospect / draft capital. So he also didn't pay much to bring those guys in.
Leafs had no 2025 1st, and no seconds in 2024-2026, and no third in 2024.
So Dubas had really driven that team into the ground, with very little to show for it.