Chris Johnston

Well, as of this morning, he was expected to be good to go as well.

But as well as Nick Robertson has played, if Aiden Hill is able to start for the Vegas Golden Knights, I mean, that's a huge, huge boost.

I mean, he hasn't played since October.

And anybody who pays any attention to the Vegas Golden Knights, you can see that

Their goaltending, despite the addition of Carter Hart, has been all over the map.

Game one, we'll see how it goes for them, but that's a pretty big boost.

Well, I think the settling in process is still underway, but more so maybe from a coaching perspective than anything else.

You know, Bruce Cassidy looking at different ways that they can utilize Mitch Marner, be it on the power play or otherwise.

But what's noteworthy to me, and Leafs fans may not appreciate this, but we certainly saw it in the first half of the year,

was the accolades that Miner is getting in Vegas as far as defensive play and how strong he is as a defensive forward.

And look, I mean, when he was with the Maple Leafs, he was a trust defensive player, right?

I mean, he was on the penalty kill more often than not.

But the question after that was, okay, well, how do they replace the points and the offense that Marner brought?

And the numbers might be a little bit down, clearly, in Vegas from that perspective.

But the feedback that I get from management, from the coaching staff, is he's arrived and he's played as advertised.

Yeah, I tend to agree with that.

I can appreciate the speculation around the idea of trading one of those three guys, only because the Maple Leafs don't have a whole lot of tradable money.

It's an asset.

Absolutely.

Maybe it's too much of a luxury to consider, okay, well, let's wait until the offseason and see what comes our way at that point.