Jesse Granger

He waited until the TV timeout.

He kind of came out and skated around a little bit, tested it, slammed his stick into the stick holder and went right back.

Like you could tell he's like, Oh God, this is not, this is not good.

So, um, yeah, it's, it's very concerning.

And this team over the years,

has not looked the same without Mark Stone.

Everybody knows how good of a hockey player he is, but he's also just a fiery, emotional leader for this team.

They looked good last night, but this is a big sample we've got, unfortunately, of games without Mark Stone, and this team has never looked the same without him.

I don't know how long he's going to be out, but they really need him back.

Yeah, I think that's why you saw Bruce Cassidy lose his job, to be honest.

Because

Bruce Cassidy wasn't doing a poor job with this team.

And I don't think anyone thinks that like long-term over the next five years, I think even with the success they've had under Tortorella here, I think you'd still say like for the success of the next five years, if this team's going to be in its competitive window, you'd probably rather have Bruce Cassidy behind the bench for most of that time, but they may not have that much time.

And I think that was a signal that they're like, okay,

this season isn't working with Bruce Cassidy.

His message isn't getting through, whatever it is.

It's like, we've got to do something to salvage this season because we don't know how many more we're going to have.

And even this year may not have happened if the Pacific division wasn't the worst division I've ever seen in my entire life.

I mean, it was bad.

It was bad.