Jeff O'Neill

Buffalo might be a different story.

But I think the point you just made, and I want to play this clip,

is the most important detail that came out of this.

And again, I thought it was a press conference that lacked clarity, lacked energy, lacked inspiration.

Specifics.

Like, you get very few opportunities to step in front of a mic where literally the whole fan base is waiting for you to speak.

Very few.

And today at 2 p.m., that was an example of it today.

Heath Pelley, I thought...

had to nail this and owed it to his fan base to put forth more clarity and more of a vision.

What scares me is I'm not sure he's got it.

It really does feel like a month and a half ago, they weren't thinking this way, and now they've fired Tree Living.

He admitted they haven't determined which firm is going to help them pursue the next hire and kind of joked about it, like, oh, a bunch of people will probably send me an email today.

Why aren't you on that already?

You haven't determined.

You're the Maple Leafs.

You haven't figured out who is going to help you in the pursuit of the next hire.

And he didn't give clarity on what this hierarchy is going to be.

Is it a president and GM?

Is it just a GM?