Mats Sundin

So I'm hoping to be able to bring that experience to the locker room, players, coaches, and management.

Like I said on the press conference, I think there's been some generations, if you look back 20, 30 years with Wendell Clark and Doug Gilmore and myself, some good runs, I think there's been a lot of good things happening there, both in the locker room and in management, and some mistakes as well.

And I think it's important to learn from that and help this generation of Toronto Maple Leafs.

Not at all.

I think John and I met him the first time Memorial Cup for a long, long time ago.

I think John.

Me and him have a vision of what a winning team looks like are exactly the same.

And he's a hardworking guy, smart guy.

I think the way the game is being played today, I think it's a perfect match for Toronto to take the Toronto Maple Leafs into the future.

So I'm not concerned about that.

Well, you know, it's one thing to look at them from the outside.

I think there's a lot of evaluation that has to happen all this summer to be able to look and talk to players and people around the team and understand really how far the team is from being a true contender and making long runs into the playoffs.

I think anyone that watches the game today understands it's a high-paced game.

you know, great skating on pretty much all positions, great goaltending.

But as I said, where we are today, it's going to be a lot of evaluation.

Yeah, I think Austin Matthews, listen, he's, I think, the leading scorer in the league, right, the last 10 years.

He's arguably been one of the best players in the world for the past 10 years.

Led Team USA to gold.

He's a leader.

He's a great person.