Brendan Batchelor

Are they now pivoting to look at someone to insulate him, a more veteran hand, someone that has experience?

And might that be the other piece of the puzzle that still needs to fall into place here?

Elias Patterson, I don't think.

there's anything else right now that, that, you know, even comes close to it, I guess.

Yeah.

You know who they look to take at third overall or what their approach is to the first round of the draft in terms of whether they'd be willing to trade down or, you know, potentially trade up, I guess if, if San Jose is potentially talking about moving off their pick or, you know, I don't think the Leafs would, but you never know.

Yeah.

That's not what I'm expecting.

I'm just throwing it out there as a possibility.

But to me, it's the future of Elias Pettersson.

And that's why I wonder...

about Evan Gold because, you know, you can look at this from a couple sides, right?

And I heard, you know, Halford and Brough were debating this this morning about, you know, Ryan Johnson comes in and the plus side for him is that he knows the organization.

He knows the structure.

He's been around.

He, you know, has an understanding of the way things work.

The downside potentially would be that he's been around for some of the decisions that have been made in the past.

And if you wanted to have a complete regime change and a completely fresh slate, then.

he wouldn't represent a fresh slate necessarily.

So those are the pros and cons for him.