3. Is this the year Nicholas Robertson takes the next step?
The Maple Leafs certainly need it to be.
If they don’t trade him, that is.
Toronto signed the 23-year-old forward to a one-year, $1.825 million contract on Aug. 2 and will be looking for him to regain the form that saw him score 55 goals in 46 games with Peterborough of the Ontario Hockey League in 2019-20, his first season after being selected in the second round (No. 53) of the 2019 NHL Draft.
In 156 games with the Maple Leafs, he has 56 points (32 goals, 24 assists) and at times took undisciplined penalties last season.
Treliving said he still sees promise in the hard-shooting Robertson.
“He’s still a young player, he’s still an evolving player, but he’s got a skillset and he shoots it in the net,” Treliving said. “That’s a good skillset to have.”