Fraser Minten continues to make Brad Treliving look incompetent

Fraser Minten is only 22 years old and already marked as a leader for the Boston Bruins, and it continues to make Brad Treliving look grossly inefficient.

If there's one thing you can point to this season that could be the start of something special was the drafting of Gavin McKenna. A future franchise cornerstone, he's ushering in a new era in Toronto. But Toronto also lucked out hard in acquiring him.

They very well could've been looking at a much different face of the franchise though if the team had kept Fraser Minten. Part of the deal that sent the aforementioned first-rounder used on McKenna (Top-5 protected) as well as Minten in exchange for Brandon Carlo.

It didn't work out for the Maple Leafs meanwhile Minten is thriving with one of Toronto's biggest rivals.

Minten already being pegged as a Bruins locker room leader

But it's what Minten is doing at 22 years old that is turning heads, and makes Brad Treliving's rash decision to trade him away look even more ridiculous.

Minten has stepped into a leadership role already with Boston despite being so young, and the recent praise he's gotten from his teammates is nothing short of impressive for someone just finding themselves in the league.

Charlie McAvoy praised Minten's leadership ability, and is happy to see that he's finally coming into his own this season:

He was already amazing last year. We saw glimpses of what he could be in the future. I think the biggest thing is him finding his voice, which is amazing,

McAvoy also continued to state that Minten is going to be a player who the team leans on both on the ice and off it:

We wanted to bring him into the leadership group and see him flourish, because he has that personality. The way he plays is so mature. That's a way in which he can lead...we're going to lean on him a lot.

That's a lot of praise for Minten and the forward deserves every bit of it. So far this year he has four goals and seven points in seven games while adding a plus-6, six hits, two blocks, and 16 PIM so far - he's doing it all.

Brad Treliving looks really bad thanks to Minten

But it puts Treliving's decision to trade him no doubt the worst move he made. Yes, Toronto got McKenna but that was dumb luck and Treliving's hastiness at trading so much for so little really shed new light on his tenure.

For a guy who was so stubborn and didn't make any moves, the ones he did make didn't seem to have a lot of thought behind them, or at least some type of plan. Coupled with some pretty questionable contracts handed out and you wonder if perhaps he was trying to sabotage the team from the inside.

Obviously he wasn't trying to but his moves and decisions didn't really spark a lot of hope, and while he had one successful season, a lot of that had to do with luck, staying healthy, and Mitch Marner's elite performance.

If Toronto had Minten now, you have to think that he would at least be challenging John Tavares for the 2C spot, and his two-way production would've been a huge asset for the Maple Leafs.

Instead, he gets to thrive and grow with one of Toronto's most hated rivals which pretty much cements Brad Treliving as one of the worst GMs in their century-long history.

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