Frank Seravalli

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.

And then here we are less than five days later and Craig Ruby's fired.

My thought process would be, and the first thing that came to my mind was, well, the Leafs are seeing that Bruce Cassidy, I think unquestionably one of the five or small handful of best coaches in the league is available.

And another Canadian team, which has marquee players is,

at least at this point, being Heisman for the right to interview Bruce Cassidy.

If we're going to make a change, it's to get someone that we believe is better and let's act quickly as opposed to sit around and wonder what we should do.

Um...

I think he does.

I think everything that Bruce Cassidy's teams do emanates from the back end out.

They're very, very detailed in the way that they defend.