Bryan Hayes

There's him on Mobley, a guy who's won Defensive Player of the Year, going right into his chest.

I mean, this to me, like...

I don't know if Scottie Barnes is going to be the face of the league, as Darko once famously said, but I think if this team could ever sort of, if CMB is real, as a 20-year-old rookie who had an incredible game last night and is having a really good rookie year, and Scottie Barnes gets enough around him, I think he's a really good Toronto-style player because he's not afraid to get his hands dirty.

Number two, I mean, when you wear that blue and white maple leaf and there's a C on the front of it, you are a face of Toronto sports no matter how you're playing.

And Austin Matthews, he might be right now the face of failure, but he's definitely the face of the Toronto Maple Leafs.

And he is definitely a guy who is becoming more polarizing, which is interesting because at a certain point in his career when he was Mr. 69 Goals and

And a Hart Trophy winner, there was no debate about this guy.

But now that he's scored 60 goals combined in the past two seasons and this team has fallen off the map as it has this year, I do think it's a little more of a polarizing face.

than it ever has been sure and uh but it still is a popular face you see a ton of austin matthews jerseys around this town to this day and obviously it's an influential face because everybody's wondering you know what does austin think yeah about the rebuild or the retool or the new guy that's going to be coming into town and that's going to be a major storyline for many many weeks to come

Yeah.

That's the truth.

Exactly.

I mean, and, you know, like, with Matthews, so often lately people point out, hey, this is –

second highest paid player in the league, and what's it getting us, right?

Like in terms of success.

And, you know, Vladdy, right now, fourth highest paid player in Major League Baseball this season, and at $40 million plus, and you don't hear a lot of resentment about it, right?

Because he delivered when it mattered, right?

Which is something Austin Matthews can't say he ever did for the Toronto Maple Leafs.

And so, yeah, and like last night I was telling, as we were saying in the Keegan segment, like,

It was palpable last night.