Justin Bourne

Like when you come in, are you immediately like, hey, it's, you know, trade deadlines coming up.

You're looking at player personnel.

Where are your priorities to start?

Certainly one of the things that sort of helps with culture is winning, right?

That's something that, you know, if you can just get there, things seem to go a little bit better.

So you talked about the gap there between where the Leafs are at and where you're trying to get to, maybe selling Austin Matthews a little bit on making sure he wants to be a part of the program in the years ahead.

So Kipper said, I'm not going to make you outline the vision, but I would like to have some conversation about

Well, I'll ask you, I'll add just a little bit.

Like, Mats, you've been around here for a bit now.

You know, you have followed the team, and you're here on and off.

You talk about being, getting internal and talking to people.

Do you have sort of a plan of talking to the players, the staff?

Whenever anyone gets a new boss, everyone gets nervous, I'm sure, and wants to know what's going on.

What's the plan as you guys?

John, I want to address the idea that you're an analytics guy.

You know, that's like sort of the thing these days, right?

New Jersey just hired an analytics guy.

What does that mean?

Like in what capacity will you use that information that would make you different from someone who's a, and I'm going to air quote, hockey guy?

As you guys were going through this process, Matt, a lot of stuff was coming out about what the roles might look like.