{"id":114348,"date":"2025-09-03T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/114348\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T00:00:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T00:00:09","slug":"treliving-maple-leafs-committed-to-safety-and-security-of-players-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/114348\/","title":{"rendered":"Treliving: Maple Leafs committed to safety and security of players, families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DETROIT \u2014 In the wake of Mitch Marner\u2019s\u00a0interview last week, in which the former Toronto Maple Leaf and current Vegas Golden Knight said he feared for his and his family\u2019s safety following Toronto\u2019s elimination from the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs, Maple Leafs general manager Brad Treliving said on Tuesday that the team is as committed as ever to the players\u2019 safety and security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our business, your No. 1 priority is looking after your players, and I think we do a really good job of it,\u201d Treliving told Sportsnet ahead of the NHL\u2019s annual general managers and coaches meetings taking place in Detroit this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t have any concerns that we don\u2019t do everything humanly possible to make sure that they\u2019re looked after, but in today\u2019s world, you never take anything not seriously,\u201d Treliving continued. \u201cIn today\u2019s world \u2014 and it can go for Toronto, it can go for any market with social media \u2014 the lion\u2019s share of people can have good, honest discourse, but there\u2019s always the ones that cross the line.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate, but we always take every precaution necessary to make sure our guys are looked after.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marner told TSN last week that directly following Toronto\u2019s Game-7 loss to the Florida Panthers, his father-in-law notified him his home address had leaked on social media.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/32-THOUGHTS_1280X720_V2-640x360.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"32 Thoughts: The Podcast\"\/>32 Thoughts: The Podcast<\/p>\n<p>Hockey fans already know the name, but this is not the blog. From Sportsnet, 32 Thoughts: The Podcast with NHL Insider Elliotte Friedman and Kyle Bukauskas is a weekly deep dive into the biggest news and interviews from the hockey world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/podcasts\/32-thoughts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Latest episode<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c(He) goes: \u2018I just want to let you know we\u2019ve got people sending us screenshots of a guy posting your address online saying that if people want to come pay us a visit and say, you know, their goodbyes, in a quotation way, here\u2019s the address,\u2019 and it was a little tough, obviously,\u201d Marner said. \u201cI mean, we kind of dealt with it for the last two years in a way \u2014 the market\u2019s very passionate, they love the team. I mean, I know it. I was born and raised there, I\u2019ve been a part of the Leafs Nation for a long time. But, yeah, when your family\u2019s safety comes into question, especially having a new son, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s acceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Treliving doesn\u2019t, either.<\/p>\n<p>When sked if the situation Marner dealt with reinforced his need to address current Maple Leafs players on the subject, Treliving said, \u201cWe go through that every year, so guys know we\u2019ve got a security team, we\u2019ve got people whose jobs are to look after them and make sure them and their families are very comfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marner\u2019s agent, Quartexx\u2019s Darren Ferris, told the 100% Hockey podcast\u00a0last week that the Maple Leafs\u2019 security team helped get social media messages revealing Marner\u2019s address taken down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was another occasion where there was a death threat, and we traced it to a kid in Oakville, and the police went\u2026\u201d Ferris added. \u201cYou\u2019re always concerned. You can\u2019t just say, \u2018Ah, it\u2019s just social media,\u2019 because if something happened, that would be the biggest regret you could ever have. So, you\u2019ve got to take every one of those seriously\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Treliving assured the Maple Leafs do just that, and that they\u2019ll continue to reinforce to their players that they have resources available to them to best ensure their security.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have people that communicate with them whenever they feel they need to, so that\u2019s something that we address with the players all the time,\u201d Treliving said.<\/p>\n<p>Treliving also addressed some other Leafs questions:<\/p>\n<p>On the new-look Maple Leafs following Marner\u2019s departure for Las Vegas and the off-season additions of Matias Maccelli, Dakota Joshua and Nicolas Roy, Treliving said\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had some turnover. You credit the coaches because we\u2019ve changed our identity a little bit. I thought they did a really good job of building that throughout the year. There\u2019s lots of players that come back, and there\u2019s lots of things that you carryover, but training camp is the time that you start building your team, so I think every team\u2019s a bit of a work in progress when you come to camp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s changes, there\u2019s new players coming, there\u2019s young players, and I\u2019m excited to integrate the new players that we have. But everybody\u2019s sort of finding their role and where they fit. You spend all summer writing a lot of things on napkins and talking with the coach every day and figuring out where he sees everyone fitting, but it ultimately comes down the players and where the find chemistry. So, let\u2019s get into camp and let\u2019s get going, because that\u2019s really the start of building our team. We\u2019ve got the lion\u2019s share of players returning from last season, but every season is different. We\u2019re excited about the group we\u2019ve got, but we\u2019ll see what it looks like once we get going and get everybody up to speed and get the new players acclimated to the team, the market, their teammates, and really, where they fit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the identity shift he referenced and what might be different about this edition of the Maple Leafs\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s a lot, but let\u2019s not kid ourselves: There\u2019s a lot of the same personnel and talent, so you\u2019re very mindful of that. I think one of the things (head coach) Craig (Berube) really instilled was playing behind people, being harder to play against at both nets, and that was the focus of our whole coaching staff throughout the year. And they\u2019ve really tried to tie that into the talent of our players. We\u2019re fortunate to have world-class players, and I wouldn\u2019t say it\u2019s been a hard sell at all. The thing that we\u2019re fortunate about is that our top guys are also our hardest-working guys. They put in the most time, they work at their craft the hardest, they lead the way by example, so those were the nuances that I thought Craig (Berube) and the coaching staff tried to really focus on. It was how we managed the puck in critical areas, becoming more of a forecheck team, and then really focusing on both blue paints. At the end of the day, you look at Florida and the teams that have had success, every team has different nuances, but the recipe doesn\u2019t change a whole lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On whether the roster is set\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re always looking. I don\u2019t think you ever stop. Whether it happens or not, we\u2019ll see. We\u2019ve got a lot of bodies right now, so we\u2019ll see. More than likely, unless something changes, we\u2019ll go with what we\u2019ve got and see where it all sorts itself out.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DETROIT \u2014 In the wake of Mitch Marner\u2019s\u00a0interview last week, in which the former Toronto Maple Leaf and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-114348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}