I can't say it was a pleasure, Brad (Chris Young / Canadian Press) Ding-dong, the witch is dead. In the midst of the Toronto Maple Leafs' worst season in a decade, management decided to take the unexpected drastic step to fire the team's general manager, Brad Treliving, with just seven games remaining until the calendar flips on the nightmarish 2025-26 campaign. After weeks of intense speculation regarding the future direction of the Maple Leafs, the fire was stoked by the decision to sack a man who largely held the good graces of Toronto's faithful as recently as one year ago. However, losing breeds contempt and hockey can be a relentless merry-go-round of personnel if the virtuous circle of success subsides. Whether Treliving ought to be deemed the primary culprit in the Leafs' failure to make the playoffs for the first time since 2016 is irrelevant; to be frank, he had utterly failed to keep the roster as competitive as it should have been and he di...