Darren Dreger

You know, Willie needs to be better, consistently better.

So I think all bets are off if all of a sudden

you know, retool turns into something bigger or you get to a point next year where they've added some of the pieces that I just mentioned and it's still not working and you're upside down again.

You know, maybe at that point, then their future becomes more of a question, but it doesn't seem to be today.

I think so.

You know, again, we're talking about the team leaders here.

I think there has to be a conversation, doesn't there, with Austin Matthews.

Again, whoever the head of hockey operations is to say, all right, you know, what do we think of the coach here?

You know, traditionally speaking, there's nothing traditional about any of this.

None of it in Toronto has been old-school approach.

You know, Trey Living did the same thing with Sheldon Keefe.

He came in, and all right, I don't know Sheldon at all.

I want to see what he's got, what he's going to bring, and how the team responds for a year, and then they made their decision on the coach.

I think that a good number of the players would like to see Craig Berube back.

I do, but...

I haven't done a poll.

I don't know that it's 50% or 75% or what that number is.

But again, it's a weird scenario when the current head coach, Berube, has his exit interview meetings with each individual player, says, all right, the pattern for success is we have to start playing for each other, playing as a team.

Right.

I mean, when when we play as a team, then those are the games that we won.