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Brad Treliving’s Worst Trades Prior to Joining the Toronto Maple Leafs

By Jeff Borsuk

General manager Brad Treliving of the Toronto Maple Leafs, while he was with the Calgary Flames February 27, 2016 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. (Photo by Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images)
General manager Brad Treliving of the Toronto Maple Leafs, while he was with the Calgary Flames February 27, 2016 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. (Photo by Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images) /
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The Worst Trade Brad Treliving Ever Made

Hopefully, Treliving has learned from his mistakes and won’t repeat any of them now that he holds such an important role with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Perhaps the biggest blunder that has helped him learn came in July of 2022.

That’s when Treliving traded his star player Matthew Tkachuk as well as a 2025 fourth round draft pick to the Panthers. He did this to ensure that he received some kind of compensation instead of seeing Tkachuk potentially leave at the conclusion of that season.

What the Flames got was Jonathan Huberdeau, MacKenzie Weegar, Cole Schwindt, and a 2025 first round pick.

Tkachuk, unsurprisingly, was superb with the Panthers. He had a career high, 109 points season. That came off 79 games played where he recorded 40 goals and 69 assists. The 25-year-old right-winger also signed an extension to stay in Florida as part of the trade. He inked eight years  $76,000,000, which gives him an AAV of $9,500,000.

What makes this trade worse was Treliving locking in Huberdeau for eight years at a $10,500,000 cap hit. He did the same length for Weegar at $6,250,000. Neither player came near what was expected of them.

Huberdeau went from being a 115 point player on 80 games in Florida to a 55 point player in 79 games in Calgary. He also scored just half the number of goals with the Flames as he did with the Cats.

Weegar also had a drop off in his production. He went from collecting 44 to 31 points. In Weegar’s last two seasons with the Panthers, he received votes for the James Norris Memorial Trophy. That didn’t happen in his single season in Calgary. Additionally, Weegar’s minutes were reduced by over two minutes per game with the Flames.

Cole Schwindt is just 22-years-old and while he doesn’t look like he’s on pace to be an NHL regular, he has now played a total of three games in the league. He was unable to record a point in that time but was on the ice for four goals against.

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Hopefully, now with the Toronto Maple Leafs, this list remains accurate and Treliving’s future trades are far more successful.

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