Jeff O'Neill

Yeah.

Go for it, dude.

What he's saying is you... Here's how it goes.

He's protecting his guys and saying, yes, in his head he knows that these guys... When the player comes out and says, I stunk, they stunk.

But what happens is...

He's deflecting attention away from them and he's using Mitch Marner as an example and he's using other players stepping up in the playoffs.

One of his own guys, Josh Anderson, wasn't like a go-to guy during the regular season.

Damn good in the playoffs.

But what happens is there's one cycle of the playoffs where some of your guys weren't good.

But

If they get into the playoffs again next year and they see the same kind of tendencies, then all of a sudden you're looking like, do we have a problem with winning with this guy?

That's how quickly things can escalate.

Year one, leave that guy alone.

It's not a problem.

If it happens again and again, which...

happened here in toronto the same guys we were saying are they ever going to show up in the big moments and do it no no no no no and the answer was just no all the time but they just kept wheeling them back out there how much sense could that possibly make

And you can't have the cliche nightly in the National Hockey League that is your best players got to be your best players and then come playoff time and have it, oh, don't look at those guys.

We need other guys contributing.

Yeah.

The cliche is applicable at all times, most importantly come playoff time.