Frank Seravalli
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2,352 appearances
19 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 24 Jun
Frank Seravalli’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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that it really is like a toy chest that almost none of these teams are run like a true business.
There are communication gaps.
There are sometimes zero processes at all.
There are decisions being made in vacuums.
There is no, like, I know a team earlier this year at the trade deadline that was,
looking at lists on their board of players that they might target that they didn't even bother to update that already included players that are on their roster.
I wish I could tell you in full how much of a mess I believe some of these teams have been operated.
And it takes someone to come in and clean a lot of that up.
And I do think the one thing that...
Jim Rutherford had going for him at the start is that he began to reshape a lot of that.
But I believe in the end fell back on a lot of the same things that I just was critical of.
Look, I've heard stories about almost every team.
And I'm just waiting for someone, and I don't mean in Vancouver, I mean somewhere that
To actually begin to run this like a business where if you're the CEO of a major company, what you do is you go out and hire the best people you go out and hire the best amateur scout.
You can find the best pro scout, the best in all these different departments and the funnel and filtering of information.
You know, we could talk literally for hours about this.
I can't imagine that it's completely unrelated.
Like, look, I think if you were sitting there thinking that Craig Ruby was your guy, that's one thing.
but it seems like the response at least emanating from Toronto and their coaching staff is that this is relatively surprising based on where the wind appeared to be blowing that, um, the Leafs new brass, John Chayka and Matt Sundin met with Craig Ruby on Saturday.
They talked for hours and hours about where they thought this was heading viewpoints on the roster, important decisions that need to be made this summer.
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