On July 1, the Toronto Maple Leafs made it a priority to sign Ryan Reaves. It was their first order of business once the free agency window opened. What they likely didn’t realize at the time, perhaps because he wasn’t wearing an eye patch and had a parrot on his shoulder, was that they had just brought a real life pirate to the organization.
The Toronto Maple Leafs general manager, Brad Treliving, was the one who turned Reaves into that pirate. That’s because, Treliving voluntarily allowed Reaves to rob the Leafs in the form of a three-year $4,050,000 contract.