Dominic Sramaty

for in-person interviews, and they were all told there was the possibility that a favorite may be invited to stay and meet with the head of Rogers, Edward Rogers, on Wednesday and could advance to a potential final stage where if you could impress the

the owner of Rogers, something you and I, Kyle, could never do, then you could become the next general manager of the Toronto Maple Leafs.

From what I understand, that second phase did not happen for any one of the candidates.

They all met.

I'm told that Ryan Martin from the Rangers was informed sometime after that meeting that even though he had a couple of great interviews and they were impressed, he wasn't

advancing further and that he wouldn't be the next GM.

Um, Martin has interviewed in Nashville.

We'll see how, uh, he does.

And maybe some of these other searches, he did nothing to hurt himself here.

They just ultimately moved on, which leaves white and Chica, uh,

The thing that's most interesting about that, Kyle, is that they are very different candidates, almost polar opposites.

Age, background, expertise, experience, everything about them is almost completely different.

Like, I don't know if you could find two more different people if you tried.

Yeah.

Now, Nick had talked about that he thought it was going to be Chyka.

I do believe the organization is leaning that way at this time.

But, and it is possible, I think Chyka gets it.

But I think we're far from done.

I don't think anything's going to be done this week.

I don't think anything's going to be done this weekend.