Jason Strudwick

if you will, to the owner to make sure that they don't get too involved because we have a plan or I have a plan to try to help this team get out of it.

And I think that's ultimately the owner can do whatever they want.

I mean, that's why they own the team and they have the big bucks.

But I don't know.

Sometimes I think owners get in their way.

And I know it's the case of the Giants.

That was a huge conversation.

Harbaugh.

wanted to have direct access to the owner so he could help direct what was going on in and around the different levels of management, whether it was sons or friends or in the case of the manager at this point.

And give them momentum into the weekend, right?

I mean, right now, what are they, eight points behind the Red Wings?

They lose tonight.

Ten points, that's a long way home.

I know there's other teams that can pass, but that's a long way home.

You get it down to six with a game at hand, okay, you have some momentum heading into your weekend.

Oh, yeah.

This is a chance.

If I'm in that Red Wings dressing room or as a coach, I'm like, guys, this is a chance to really push someone down that's looking for a leg up.

They're trying to find a reason to believe they can get in.

And the Leafs have been playing better as well, but they're not in the playoffs.