Sportsnet 590 The FAN: Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brad Treliving mentioned yesterday wasn’t that busy for them as they already had an concept of the market. That they had some wants however their actuality was they knew they wouldn’t be capable to fill all.
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Nick Kypreos: “Get your ideas in regards to the trades that you simply made together with Connor Dewar for Minnesota for a fourth. Yust your general ideas .”
Treliving: “Properly, thanks for having me on guys.Yeah, it was I might name it Nick a kind of a normal commerce deadline. You realize, day and you realize main as much as are clearly, you numerous offers happen in all probability within the final couple of days main as much as the deadline.
I don’t know if it was that busy for us as we speak. You realize, we type of spent the week main as much as the deadline to, sure issues that you simply, you could attempt to accomplish or making an attempt to perform and have a superb understanding of, of what you could or could not be capable to get completed.
So far as the acquisition as we speak as Connor Dewar, you realize, as we checked out our group right here and recognized some wants, you realize, on the finish of the day, you realize, we had some, some wants, if you’ll going into to, to the workforce, or going into the deadline as we watched her workforce and, you realize, the fact was, we weren’t going to have the ability to fill the whole lot that we wished to.
And positively in some circumstances which have, you realize, whether or not it’s you realize, the issues I at all times have a look at is, you watch your workforce, you identify what your wants are, you then have a look at it as is what you want (a) obtainable. You realize, what’s, what’s the price? What’s the acquisition price and see, you realize, do you have got the price to get the acquisition completed?
In order we appeared round, one of many issues that we wished to attempt to add to our group is, add (a) some depth senator, any person who’s defensively accountable. Is an efficient penalty killer.
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You realize, one of many areas of our workforce proper now’s our penalty kill that should get higher you realize, we weren’t in a position to airlift a bunch of latest penalty killers in. So primary, we’ve bought to, we’ve bought to tighten issues up from a structural standpoint to be, if there’s an space to tweak ourselves personnel clever, it’s an space we need to do.
Connor is a man that got here in from a value from, a from a value match when it comes to the cap hit. An actual aggressive participant.”