Bryan Hayes

It may be a scenario here where, again, I don't think Hiller had a ton of leverage to say I'm not taking the job, I need a certain price tag, I need a certain amount of autonomy.

I don't know.

But I wouldn't be surprised with this whole lineage up and down and chief of staff and analytics and how we all see the world.

They're all going to see it the same way.

And Hiller is known as a guy that is heavily invested in analytics.

And I know that's just an overly used term.

By the way, since when?

Oh, the guy's been an assistant coach.

How would you know anyway?

When the guy was an assistant coach, the Leafs had a policy where those guys were not allowed to publicly have –

Anything, opinions, a presence.

How the hell would we know about what this guy's all about?

That's his reputation.

When have you heard any assistant coach connected to anything?

You know what I'm saying?

Who knows about any assistant coaches in the NHL?

is this going to be an organizational approach to coaching?

And this is the question that Hiller eventually is going to have to answer based on actions because, as you guys know, it's one thing to be an assistant coach.

It's another thing to be a head coach.

It's a very different beast.