BOSTON — The call came last summer.
It was from the new general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs, Brad Treliving, and he had a message for Mitch Marner.
“He made it pretty clear that he wanted to keep our core together,” Marner told The Athletic last fall. “He trusted our core.”
What now for the Leafs and that core after yet another early playoff exit?
“It’s an empty feeling right now,” William Nylander said in what’s become an all too familiar setting for the Leafs, an empty dressing room after a painful playoff loss.
Nylander’s stick, emblazoned with “Willy Styles,” was still standing against a wall in a corner. It wasn’t long after
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