Justin Bourne

Are you someone that wants to play it safe?

That's the Swedish kid.

Or are you someone that likes to play the upside game and roll the dice and go big?

And for me, I land in... Like, taking the bias out of it.

Because, like, truly, of course... Well, why?

Well, it's just I'm trying to be somewhat impartial here for what I would do with the Maple Leafs so that it's not simply like, hey, the white horse kid wants the white horse guy.

It's like, well, that's kind of...

It's pretty plain, right?

It's tiresome also at some point.

I'm not his agent.

I'm not going to stump for him.

No doubt.

But here's the thing.

I'm not heartbroken if he gets passed on by the Maple Leafs because if he goes to San Jose Sharks and he plays the next 15 years of his career with Macklin Celebrini and the two of them win Stanley Cups.

Well, like, again, this is one of those things where, you know, if you look at what's best for him, and I was told, hey, him coming to Toronto and being put marketed as the golden child, the chosen one, the savior of all of this in this market with some of the holes that he does have in his game and some of the familiarity that this fan base has had with high-skilled guys who also presented some of the same issues that he did.

New Willie just dropped.

Well, or just like, yeah, new Marner where it's like he's a perimeter player.

Like he can, like there's some stuff with him, right?

He's got to be, he's got to put on weight.

He's got to get on nutrition, strength programs, like all those different things.