Jamie McLennan

Listen, you don't want to kick a guy when he's down, clearly.

But with the way the team has performed, I think it's a valid conversation to have.

The team that you're talking about, Brian, I think, where you're talking about a bad year and it's just, hey, we'll show up next year and it might be different, it's the Florida Panthers.

That team's been decimated by injuries, and it starts with Barkoff, and at one point they're having eight or nine regulars out of the lineup.

All the guys that won cups are under contract.

They're all coming back.

Just this year's the bad year.

They'll flip the switch next year and show up and be a good team.

Can you honestly say that you have the same faith Toronto can do that?

but all these decisions these things have to be put in place here again is is the coach like you brought up frankie is the coach uh a guy who's they believe in by the way very well respected coach right like you talk to guys that have played for him they all love him very well respected guy no one's gonna deny anything of that nature it's just it's just clearly it just hasn't gone well on the ice this season maybe you get more than that but

Maybe you get more runway than that, but that's just how it's looked so far.

They do.

Yeah, they do.

And they might use one of those guys and try and do something big, whether it's at the deadline or next summer.

So here's the thing.

An organization like Montreal might have four or five guys that could step into the NHL.

Toronto's got one guy.

It's Easton Cowan.

And now he's come out of the break two games in a row, and he hasn't played.

And I find this crazy.