Mike Johnson

I imagine these kind of conversations would be going on in different places besides this.

Yes.

Yeah.

Right?

Like in the halls of the executive of Maple Leaf Sports, you're like, hmm, what are we going to do here because this is not good enough.

I would just say this, Noodles, and you're right in a lot of different ways.

What you usually associate high-end talent with is scoring goals.

What are they in goals?

Like fifth.

They're not having a hard time scoring goals.

And I get it.

Their team is different, and they miss Mitch Marner in a lot of different ways.

But I think what you would get in a different coach, and I'm not advocating for Craig Berube.

Craig Berube is a good coach, clearly.

He just won a Stanley Cup recently, and he led this team to a division title and as deep as they've been in 20 years.

But I do think if you went stylistically in a different direction, you would get different results.

Now, I'm not saying I'm not a coach.

I can't devise, you know, system play top to bottom to make this group better.

As it stands now, when they were healthier without Wall and Lawton and when they're unhealthy, trying to play the system they've been asked to play, whether it's replicating last year or tweaking last year, it's not working.

And so I think that's what a different voice is.