Sam McKee

But my point with this is like, if Mike knew that those were very concerning or could damage his reputation further, maybe he wouldn't agree to take this job knowing that that would come to light.

He obviously doesn't think they're that bad if he agreed to coach.

Here's what Frank said.

But that's the photos.

So maybe the phone is separate from that.

He was there for nine minutes.

Fantilli, eh?

Interesting.

I didn't know that part.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, he couldn't... What happened?

What happened in that month he got there?

He came in guns a-blazing, ready to change the culture and blazed some people with the guns, apparently.

Yeah, I don't know.

Well, and Stauffer had some comments to the effect of that he interviewed with the Oilers brass.

Like, sorry, that Babcock did these interviews, and they held his feet to the fire, and they grilled him, and they came out of that meeting saying, we want to do this.

This, we want someone who's going to push guys.

Torch doesn't get hired because he's an X's and O's wizard.

He gets hired because he holds people's feet to the fire.

You sure do, huh?