{"id":367489,"date":"2025-12-23T21:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T21:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/367489\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T21:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T21:37:08","slug":"leafs-brad-treliving-doubles-down-on-craig-berube-after-marc-savard-firing-i-support-craig-fully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/367489\/","title":{"rendered":"Leafs\u2019 Brad Treliving doubles down on Craig Berube after Marc Savard firing: \u2018I support Craig fully\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maple Leafs general manager Brad Treliving doubled down on his support of head coach Craig Berube in the wake of Marc Savard\u2019s dismissal from the coaching staff<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Speaking about two hours before an afternoon game against the Pittsburgh Penguins, Treliving said the decision to fire Savard boiled down to a lack of results on the league-worst power play he oversaw.<\/p>\n

\u201cUltimately, we\u2019re all judged by our results,\u201d Treliving said. \u201cI look at that particular area, and I don\u2019t want to just single out the power play, but it\u2019s been an area that, to me, has cost us points in the standings. So it\u2019s gotta be better.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Leafs, sitting at the bottom of the Eastern Conference standings, have scored a league-low 12 power-play goals.<\/p>\n

Treliving stressed that the decision to fire Savard, who joined the team as an assistant coach before last season, \u201cis not putting the blame solely at Marc Savard\u2019s feet.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s just totally incorrect,\u201d Treliving said.<\/p>\n

\u201dThis doesn\u2019t absolve anybody,\u201d the Leafs GM went on. \u201cThis is not, we throw somebody out and say, \u2018blame this person\u2019. It\u2019s a group responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a change that we could make,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Treliving went out of his way, for the second time in just over a month, to back Berube as coach.<\/p>\n

The Leafs have struggled all season under Berube\u2019s watch, with sore spots going well beyond the power play.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to make it clear: I support Craig fully,\u201d Treliving said. \u201cIt\u2019s not lost on us where the team\u2019s at. We live it every day. But I think we\u2019ve got a real good coach.\u201d<\/p>\n

Treliving said the decision to fire Savard was made in consultation with Berube as well as the management team, but was ultimately his to make.<\/p>\n

Berube was plainly unhappy with the way things had transpired.<\/p>\n

He called Savard a \u201cgood friend.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018It\u2019s always hard when you lose somebody and things change,\u201d Berube said. \u201cBut we didn\u2019t perform well enough, and it\u2019s ultimately on me.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the decision to part ways with Savard, Treliving added, \u201cThe PP struggled all year. It wasn\u2019t improving. We didn\u2019t see enough improvement. Obviously, results are what it\u2019s all about, and there definitely wasn\u2019t enough results.\u201d<\/p>\n

Treliving stressed that there was no disconnect between himself and Berube.<\/p>\n

He then suggested that assistant coach Derek Lalonde would lead the power play for Tuesday\u2019s game against the Penguins, while Berube said instead that it would be a staff effort.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s on everybody,\u201d he said of the power-play\u2019s failures. \u201cIt\u2019s on me. I\u2019m the head coach.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Leafs will get a boost on the ice against the Penguins as defenseman Chris Tanev will return after a 23-game absence, Berube said. The 35-year-old has missed time this season with both an upper-body injury and a concussion. In just eight games played this season, Tanev has registered two assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maple Leafs general manager Brad Treliving doubled down on his support of head coach Craig Berube in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85,2370],"class_list":{"0":"post-367489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367489","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=367489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}