Darren Dreger

And what about Bruce Cassidy, right?

The Vegas Golden Knights have made it abundantly clear that this is where their focus is on, and that's the Stanley Cup final and hoisting that Stanley Cup.

There's no guarantee that McCrimmon and that group are going to say, all right, Bruce, yeah, no problem.

It's an Eastern Conference-based team, so we'll give you permission to go there.

There's no guarantee of that.

I expect that that's more likely than what we've already been through.

with the Vegas Golden Knights showing zero interest in allowing perhaps the Oilers or the LA Kings to get better with Bruce Cassidy on their bench.

So, you know, LA has looked after their guy in hiring Peter Laviolette, and we've talked about the Edmonton Oilers, so Bruce Cassidy to Toronto does make some sense, provided Vegas is okay with it.

Bruce wants to be the coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs, and the Toronto Maple Leafs seeing him as the right fit at this time.

Tell you what, following the footsteps of Jim Nance, that was a tough one.

That's a tough one, I'm not going to lie.

I'll get on that, fellas.

I will.

No, nothing at all.

Well, yeah, I mean, you're referring to Dylan Larkin of the Detroit Red Wings.

And, you know, when you think of bombshells, that's as big a bombshell as we're probably going to get leading into the offseason post Stanley Cup.

So I think there's need for a little bit of an explanation here.

This has been in the works for a while.

I think that's pretty obvious.

You know, you don't just wake up one morning as a top player and go, okay,