Jeff O'Neill

Yeah.

One of the great stories of a turnaround that you wouldn't expect in the history of sports, I would think.

Got to get the right pieces around him, and you got to get the right coach to get to him or the right general manager or the right data guy or whoever it is.

Marty O'Dog was making the point about, you know, the Leafs.

Keith Pelley, the CEO of Maple Leaf Sports Entertainment, talking about how they can retool because they have foundational pieces, is the phrase he used.

And it's true they do.

You know, you talk about Matthews and Nylander and Tavares, and maybe you throw Matthew Nyes into that mix, too.

Certainly Pelly did.

That's true.

But they're also the foundation of a failed playoff team.

So we're sort of batting that around, and it's interesting to get out-of-market ideas about, you know, they made the playoffs nine years in a row before this, and that is something, I guess.

Certainly the company that owns the team loved it in terms of revenue.

But, of course, they won two playoff series in that span.

Yeah.

How do you sort of make sense of they've been somewhat successful but not having the ultimate success, and then where do you go from here with Nylander and Matthews creeping up on 30?

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