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Toronto Maple Leafs GM, when asked to add a top-six attacker

Sportsnet: Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brad Treliving was on the Kyper and Bourne show and was asked to add a top-six attacker.

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Bourne: “So a tree, one thing you have referred to in some persers and even refers a little to here, you know, you might have wanted to add a top six to play, perhaps beside Matthews and knees. What do you see, like play -offs, when play -offs start that right wing position to get that solved?

Treliving: “Well, I think step one is now to see, you know, I know that everyone is focused in that one place, and, and, and I understand it and, and we are sure. But you don’t know where chemistry comes from, right?

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You don’t know, you don’t know, you don’t know where. You know who might have a match. You can sit here and put it on a piece of paper, but you know everyone, you know that everyone will have an opinion about it. But until you get in the ice, you can see who fits who. And is also part of it, is a kind of job description, right?

We all know what the prototypical top six attacker looks like in terms of creating offense and things like that. But sometimes it needs a different ingredient. Whether it is the defensive player, someone who can come for a check and, you know, to make loose pucks, create space, all those types of things.

So I think for us, you know, we don’t go for ourselves and watch the play -offs. We look at, you know, and it sounds like a maternity statement, but we just look a little at tomorrow, right? As if we have to endure the camp here and see if there is chemistry with different guys we have now.

And so that is, that’s the process, right? We, you, practice, you talk, you know, chief (Craig Berube) and I will talk every day. We talk here with our employees of different ideas. You look internally, you look out externally. You know, it’s easy to say, let’s get a top six forward. Well, who is that? What are the costs?

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So that is, that is really where we are focused, Justin. Is, it’s okay, we have, we have our group in the camp, we are six days in or whatever we are. Is there, is there a fit? We have now seen Matias Maccelli there. They have had one preseason game under their belts. You know, Max, Max is now just in the account of the group he was, he worked due to an injury for the first days.

So, and maybe there is another, you know, maybe there is something else internally. So we keep looking internally, while we also keep looking outside and seeing, there is an availability for someone who can come in and help us. “

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