Treliving satisfied with Leafs' modest offseason changes
Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Brad Treliving said he's satisfied with the team's offseason despite not making franchise-altering moves many fans wished for.
"I know sometimes people fall in love with 'let's make a big change just to make a big change,'" Treliving told TSN's "OverDrive." "But at the end of the day, you can go out and make big changes, if they're not making your team better, to me it doesn't make any sense."
Maple Leafs brass raised eyebrows following the club's first-round elimination to the Boston Bruins by saying everything was on the table for the future of the roster. Instead of making blockbuster trades to alter the core, Treliving signed defensemen Chris Tanev and Oliver Ekman-Larsson in free agency while also awarding contract extensions to Max Domi and Joseph Woll.
"Every once in a while, you try to hit a home run," Treliving added. "The reality is, whether it be our business or any other business, you just keep trying to hit some singles, right? ... Keep picking away at different things to alter the group, to, again, push it forward."
The Maple Leafs also replaced head coach Sheldon Keefe with Craig Berube this summer and named Auston Matthews captain earlier this week.