Bryan Hayes

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Brian Hayes, Jamie Noodles, McLennan, Frankie Corrado in here.

How are you guys doing?

Yeah.

You know what?

It is interesting because I've had these chats like the last nine years they've been in the playoffs.

Right.

You know, you've been kind of planning for the playoffs and what's that going to look like and what are you going to do with the show and you're going down to the games and, you know, how's TSN Hockey going to handle it and SportsCenter and everything.

And now it's...

kind of a foregone conclusion like it's just not it's not going to happen you know they're they're not going to make it they've never really been in the playoffs at any point all season and you're right it was beautiful sun's out it's i read today it's going to be maybe like 20 degrees in toronto and like a couple of weeks so there you go everything's coming together here it's gonna be okay you gotta take the positive but yeah man like that's i don't know i i

No, exactly.

And, you know, now everyone's trying to figure out.

Is it mental?

Is it coaching?

Is it personnel?

And in reality, it's probably just a combination of all of them.

I think a lot of teams that had belief that they could have a great unofficial second half probably were chomping at the bit to get out there and prove it.

And I'm not sure the Leafs ever really believed based on the two performances.

And that's simply an intangible conversation.