The Toronto Maple Leafs are not expected to make any major changes to either the coaching staff or management team before the end of the regular season, according to The Athletic’s Chris Johnston.

“ At this point in time, from talking to people around the organization, the sense is they wanna get through this period we’ll call it no man’s land.  Bit of a death march with the playoffs having faded from view for the Maple Leafs,” Johnston said on Thursday’s edition of Insider Trading. “ All of the people outside were asking ‘What’s gonna happen with the management staff? What about Craig Berube and the coaching staff? Will Auston Matthews stick around?’ All these questions, I don’t believe we will get any clarity on whatsoever until after mid-April; the Leafs play their final regular season game on April 15th.”

Johnston added that while there are still a ton of games left for the Leafs to play, this intervening period leaves many on the staff in a precarious position. It doesn’t help that the team continues to struggle and the losses pile up, with no end in sight to when things will start to turn around with their current structure intact.

GM Brad Treliving and head coach Craig Berube have faced plenty of criticism from Leafs fans throughout the season, with calls for them to be relieved of their duties dating back to late November when the team was struggling early on. They may have survived a boiling point around Christmas when the team fired assistant coach Marc Savard, but the calls for a seismic change have only grown louder as the campaign has progressed.

Johnston is not the first to report that Treliving and Berube’s status in Toronto beyond this season remains murky at best. The Fourth Period’s David Pagnotta reported on Wednesday on DFO Rundown that the Leafs are leaning towards a coaching change, while a change at GM is currently unclear. If the losses continue to pile up, there will almost certainly be more noise surrounding the two’s futures with the team.

The Leafs are currently last in the Atlantic Division and have the ninth-worst record in the NHL at the time of filing. Even after Thursday’s win over the Anaheim Ducks, their chances of making the playoffs for a 10th straight year are effectively dashed, with the only hope now being that they can retain their first-round pick to use later this spring.

“I don’t look at today as the autopsy day…But I think there’s a whole host of reasons,” Treliving said after the trade deadline on March 6. “I will take responsibility, the failures here start with me. Once we get through the end of the season, there will be all sorts of evaluation. We got off to a poor start. I look from my standpoint at some roster construction issues, lack of consistency, the inability to maintain any kind of level. There’s been a whole bunch of factors, but we’ll get to that in due course.”

It feels inevitable that big changes are forthcoming for the Leafs, but reports are suggesting that they won’t start to occur until after the regular season ends.

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