Chris Johnston

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1,798 appearances 21 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard yesterday

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OverDrive · Johnston on the takeaways from Leafs Media Day, Auston Matthews status in Toronto, and Connor Hellebuyck's trade market · 16 Sep 2026 podcast

You didn't know what it was gonna look like.

I had to take time to step back and survey things.

I mean he didn't outright say he had stuff to think about, but it he didn't leave

To me much

the lineation between what we were were talking about in April and May about his situation and and what's happened since.

I mean the the truth of the matter is this.

He wanted to see the team make some real steps.

And you know, he was at a point I think coming off the the Olympic gold medal win.

you know, he he he knows his birth certificate.

I'm not saying he's he's old, but you know, he's he's at a point in part of his career where he wants to have a chance to to be on a good team and and the Leafs last year were not a good team.

Obviously he's a part of that.

He's a captain.

Uh you know, didn't uh ended the year injured but didn't didn't perform terms of production the way he has in the past.

And that and that sort of separating him from team.

All I'm hammering the point on is I think he needed some

Some assurance that the the the ownership was committed to trying to win still, that the new management was, you know, on you know, in alignment with the way he saw things.

And, you know, from what I understand he really likes what he's seen and heard from you know, getting to know John Tchaika better and and you know, spending time about Matt Sandine.

And I think he likes that they were aggressive this off season and trying to to at least get the kind of pieces a winning team might need.

Yeah, I think it depends how it plays out and and and you know, the team that's on paper and is gonna take the ice tomorrow is not obviously gonna be the team that's here at the end of the year.

Um, you know, it's it's kinda unique, right?

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