Pierre LeBrun

It makes sense that the new GM, whoever's in charge of hockey ops, should decide the fate of Craig Berube.

It should not be Keith Belly.

It should be the person running hockey.

So I have no problem with that answer.

I mean, what other answer would you want?

Yeah, it's a good question, Frank.

Again, let me stress this.

By then, will Judd Moldaver and Austin Matthews have given the team direction on their own?

They haven't yet because I think they're sitting back and waiting to see who gets hired and what the plan is.

But my point is, and I'm not trying to give Leaf fans PTSD with Mitch Marner, but...

the player has so much sway here in what happens.

And it's the captain of this team that will ultimately decide I'm willing to stay put or not.

And so...

it's great that the new GM or the new president of hockey operations will have sold Keith Pelley on a certain plan and perhaps share some of that vision with the fan base at their news conference.

But at the end of the day, they need a buy-in either way from the captain.

And right now, you can only guess on that because they haven't got there themselves.

Well, by the way, nice of Keith Pelley to pump the tires of the Buffalo Sabres and Montreal Canadiens while he was at it.

There you go.

That's right.

No, no, no.