2025-26 Toronto Maple Leafs General Discussion

[mr grieves]

“I heard a story not too long ago, about two years ago, when the regime change happened, the new group comes into Toronto, led by Brad Treliving, and they start meeting with all the players just to get to know them, to talk to them. OK, what's the vibe like? What's your sense of where the team is at?
And one of the players, a forward who was like a depth role at the time, had just said, like, we don't feel like we've got any role here. Like, we're not truly part of it.”

This is something I wondered about when it became clear that the flat cap was going to lead to the Browns, Kapanens, Hymans, Johnssons and the like getting moved out for a rotating cast of league minimum supporting players. Extreme wealth inequality and a hollowed out middle class isn’t something I think is good in any other context, don’t know why I bought it for team sports.