Chris Johnston
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1,798 appearances
21 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
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You have Matsanina and John Tchaika stepping in and and normally you'd say with
you know, new new leadership in the hockey ops department, you gotta give them a couple of years to, you know, put their stamp on things.
You know, I I don't know if they get that kind of luxury just with kind of where they're stepping into to this job with the Leafs.
Um, you know, I think they'll continue to be aggressive if the season doesn't start well, you know, if they get it twenty or thirty games in.
You know, everything that I've heard from them suggests to me that
You know, they just want to see basically let the team give them the feedback and they're gonna react and if you look at this off season, I mean clearly they weren't afraid to to dive right in and take some swings and and you know, shape things up.
So, you know, I I think how the year plays out is almost as important as
you know, what the end result is.
Um, you know, but it's gonna be a big summer next year for for for Austin Matthews, clearly.
He can sign an extension with the lease as of July first.
Uh, there's nothing really to be done on that contract front in the meantime, but you know, this is this is an important season when it comes to him.
And I think, you know, I the w the other thing he said today is no one's more excited than him to see Gavin McKenna.
I mean, I I'm sure you know, getting to play alongside, you know, a player of that talent that's younger, I mean uh how all that stuff, you know, could end up being a really good rookie year, maybe it
Yeah, I'm not saying putting trying to put that pressure on the Canada, but I think it will impact how Matthews feels about the direction of the organization beyond even the season.
So that that's kind of where I feel like it's at.
It's you know, everyone's looking to have a much better year than last year. 'Cause if it's a repeat of that, then we're talking about all kinds of change again.
I I think it's somewhere in the middle.
You know, Riley's an interesting case.
Like look at all the contracts that we've just seen sign.
in in the last, you know, twenty four, forty eight hours, but also the last couple of months, you know, Morgan Riley's cap hit all of a sudden when you look around the league.
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