NHL insider reporting that the Toronto Maple Leafs are currently engaged in talks to bolster one area of need

Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman has suggested that the Maple Leafs are currently engaged in trade talks to address a specific need.

Brad Treliving's off-season seemed to have focused solely on the back-end and goaltending with very little interest in upgrading his forward corps. Perhaps it was strategic based on the Leafs' hopes that Matthew Knies and Bobby McMann can take a step, as well as the potential of Fraser Minten and Easton Cowan making the team out of training camp.

Regardless of the initial reasoning, their bottom-6 leaves something to be desired and Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman believes there's a solution to that problem. In his recent "32 Thoughts" article, Friedman made a brief mention that the Maple Leafs are potentially brewing up a storm and considering left-wing options:

While Friedman doesn't elaborate or give much detail, the left-side does need a little bit of a boost as currently the Maple Leafs have Pontus Holmberg and Connor Dewar on the left-wings, according to Daily Face-Off's line combinations.

The Maple Leafs have a shade over $1.2 million remaining in projected cap space and still have to deal with the disgruntled Nicholas Robertson, who requested a trade earlier in the summer, despite being handed a qualifying offer. The wheels are seemingly in motion, so stay tuned for a potential late-summer move from Treliving and the Maple Leafs.

Source: Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman32 Thoughts: A collection of late off-season notes

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