Jonas Siegel
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Maybe it gives us a 1% edge.
Maybe it doesn't matter, but we are the Leafs.
We can spend whatever the heck we want.
And what they did instead is they said, you know what, that role's gone.
The sports scientist role's gone.
We are going to take the responsibilities, or at least some of the responsibilities, of the director, and we are going to pass them to our assistant strength coach,
who still has his own job.
Like, he is a strength coach.
And from what I understand, like, he is pulled pretty thin.
Like, he has a lot of responsibilities.
And now you're telling him on top of all that, we want you to be on top of this sports science.
We want you to look at, like, that doesn't...
To me, that doesn't make sense.
I don't know why you would do that.
If you're the Leafs, you're worth $4.4 billion.
You can do whatever you want.
You can spend as much as you want.
So to me, it looks like cost-cutting 101.
It looks like what a company does when they want to save some money.
They cut a position.