Bryan Hayes

And I'm not sitting here defending Brad true living like Brad, you know, true living.

He's done some good things, some bad things.

The team is in a position right now where the narrative hanging around the team is you should lose tonight.

That's not, that's tough to explain to your bosses that your fans are openly advocating for losses so that you can keep a pick.

You traded away in a deal that looks worse and worse by the day.

He also doesn't have a previous stop in the league that you can point to and say, Hey,

Give them a second chance because don't forget about what happened there.

Right.

Because if you do that, you look at Calgary and they're actually worse than the Maple Leafs.

Yes.

So Tree Living did not really have a leg to stand on.

I mean, it would have been a tough pitch for him to keep his job or to get an extension.

But now you've got to figure out how you're going to transition this into the future.

And being cutting edge is important.

But I think to your point, cutting edge analytically was like 20 years ago.

Now I don't know what the next cutting edge is.

I don't have that answer.

Well, it might be AI.

I guess so, but again, you're dealing with people.

You're in the people industry.