{"id":100700,"date":"2025-08-27T11:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T11:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/100700\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T11:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T11:39:08","slug":"3-questions-facing-toronto-maple-leafs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/100700\/","title":{"rendered":"3 questions facing Toronto Maple Leafs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3. Is this the year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/nicholas-robertson-8481582\" title=\"Nicholas Robertson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicholas Robertson<\/a> takes the next step?<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs certainly need it to be.<\/p>\n<p>If they don\u2019t trade him, that is.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>In 156 games with the Maple Leafs, he has 56 points (32 goals, 24 assists) and at times took undisciplined penalties last season.<\/p>\n<p>Treliving said he still sees promise in the hard-shooting Robertson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s still a young player, he\u2019s still an evolving player, but he\u2019s got a skillset and he shoots it in the net,\u201d Treliving said. \u201cThat\u2019s a good skillset to have.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3. Is this the year Nicholas Robertson takes the next step? The Maple Leafs certainly need it to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-100700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}