{"id":150570,"date":"2025-09-17T20:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/150570\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T20:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:55:09","slug":"nhl-news-auston-matthews-former-teammate-reportedly-returning-to-maple-leafs-to-help-brad-treliving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/150570\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL News: Auston Matthews’ former teammate reportedly returning to Maple Leafs to help Brad Treliving"},"content":{"rendered":"

Auston Matthews<\/a> and the rest of the team are reportedly welcoming back a familiar face ahead of the 2025\u201326 NHL season. With general manager Brad Treliving at the helm, it\u2019s only fitting that a retired player with ties to both the Calgary Flames and the Toronto Maple Leafs is joining the organization.<\/p>\n

The NHL regular season is approaching and it\u2019s time for Matthews and the Leafs<\/a> to face the music. Mitch Marner is no longer in The Six. Now, the Buds must put on their best face and take on the rest of the league. If Toronto is serious about righting its wrong from years past, it must prove it early in the year.<\/p>\n

On that note, Treliving and the brass in Hogtown are welcoming a familiar face into a new role with the organization: none other than Mark Giordano, who played for the Leafs from 2022 to 2024. Reports suggest the retired blueliner will primarily work with the team\u2019s American Hockey League affiliate, the Toronto Marlies.<\/p>\n

\u201cMark Giordano will be joining the Leafs\u2019 staff, primarily working with the Toronto Marlies. A formal announcement is expected imminently,\u201d The Leafs Nation\u2019s reporter Arun Srinivasan said on X.<\/p>\n

\"Mark<\/p>\n

Mark Giordano at TD Garden on January 14, 2023 in Boston, Massachusetts<\/p>\n

The more things change\u2026<\/p>\n

While the Maple Leafs are excited about the upcoming NHL<\/a> season, they can\u2019t help feel anxious about the sudden changes in the locker room. Marner\u2019s absence will be felt throughout the year, and it will be brought up constantly by the media in Toronto. If things head south, the buzz will be unbearable. <\/p>\n

\"NHL<\/p>\n

see also<\/p>\n

NHL News: Maple Leafs GM Brad Treliving gives blunt answer on top-six forward hunt to support Auston Matthews<\/p>\n

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\u201cI guess we lost a player \u2014 a real good player here \u2014 but we added three new players to our lineup and I\u2019m excited about that,\u201d Craig Berube commented, per The Hockey News. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m excited to see where they fit in and how they look and try to find some chemistry with players and things like that. It\u2019s a change, we all know that. Losing Mitch and bringing in three new players, it\u2019s a little bit of a change here for sure.\u201c<\/p>\n

Flipped the script<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, like for us now, we\u2019ve turned the page, right? We\u2019re moving forward. We wish Mitch all the best, but our focus is on our team, not what was. It\u2019s what is now,\u201d Treliving said. \u201cAnd I said at the time, you\u2019re not just replacing him, right? We can all break it down however you want. To me, it\u2019s not replacing 100 points. So to me, it was rounding out the roster, and I feel good about it.\u201c<\/p>\n

As much as it stings for the hometown kid\u2019s story not to unfold in Toronto, the Maple Leafs know it might be for the best. The Buds seemed to be banging their heads against the wall, hoping things would magically change.<\/p>\n

SurveyWho will finish higher in the Atlantic Division?<\/p>\n

Who will finish higher in the Atlantic Division?<\/p>\n

It didn\u2019t. So now it\u2019s time for Matthews and company to create their own luck. Perhaps giving up on Marner wasn\u2019t the right decision, but Toronto was tired of waiting\u2014and this is the only way the Leafs can truly find out. At least now the Buds won\u2019t have to hear about the \u201cCore Four\u201d, like Berube joked in his press conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Auston Matthews and the rest of the team are reportedly welcoming back a familiar face ahead of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,2368,63,575,85,2370],"class_list":["post-150570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-auston-matthews","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-toronto-maple-leafs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150570","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=150570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}