Michael Landsberg

To chat about that, among other things, here's our TSN hockey analyst joining us here on the Maple Toyota Hotline.

Here's Mike Johnson.

How are you doing, Johnny?

So I want to follow up with your projection on the next Bettman because, as you know as a big NBA fan, going from David Stern to Adam Silver was a massive change, like as significant as you can get in terms of being player-friendly, in terms of creating tournaments, and all these different things that they've done in the league ever since Silver arrived.

You don't see that possibly being there?

Like if it's Bill Daley, I guess, okay, Bill Daley has worked with Bettman forever.

I mean, they're kind of a two-headed monster.

But if it's somebody else, like I'm picturing a new commissioner coming in and maybe having a different viewpoint of a second team in Toronto, something Bettman has never entertained.

Maybe the new commissioner willing to do that.

A play-in, a playoff play-in immediately.

But that's drastic.

Like Bettman will not change off anything immediately.

If someone comes in and looks at one thing differently, I would suggest, I mean, that's more progressive than anything Bettman's done in the last 10 years.

Explain yourself.

Justify this outrageous take, please.

It was actually Joe from the bridge that threw that out.

Yeah, exactly.

Which he's also a brilliant mind, a brilliant hockey mind.

That seems very, very likely that a former Leaf is going to win the cons might.

I think that probably goes, I wouldn't say it goes without saying, because you're right, there are other players, like let's say Stan Coven has a phenomenal cup final, or Blake has a great cup final, or maybe Jack Eichel just has a dominant cup final.