On the Sheet: David Alter on the Toronto Maple Leafs Firing Craig Berube

Jeff Marek· Host0:00

[upbeat music] Anyhow, in the meantime, we're talking with the Toronto Maple Leafs with David Alter, uh, from the Hockey News, who joins me now. More on this story. First of all, David, thanks so much for, for stopping by on a, on a day like this. Uh, you make sure the batteries are charged a- and the phone [laughs] and the, and the, the phone doesn't burn out. But, uh, quick thought on this one, um, I don't think anybody should necessarily be surprised, but has anything, has anything caught your eye here that you would say, "Well, I didn't expect that"?

David Alter· Guest0:27

Um, not necessarily. I thought there might be some detail into the thinking as to why the Leafs decided to move on from Berube, but, uh, Cheka offered little to nothing, just kind of sticking to- Yeah ... kind of the corporate speak, organizational vision, all that kind of stuff, and not really kind of getting to why. He did kind of mention that, uh, they didn't solicit player feedback as to, uh, as to if they should bring Berube back or not, which I thought was pretty interesting.

Jeff Marek· Host0:54

Mm-hmm.

David Alter· Guest0:55

But other than that, I mean, I think this is kind of shaping of what it's gonna be like where whenever we do hear from some of the organizational principals here, you're just not gonna get a lot of detail, and everything's gonna be assessed by what they do as opposed to, to what they say. Like, e- everyone understands the rationale behind it, but some insight as to why they made this decision, why they did it now, why they didn't let, uh, Berube kind of go through maybe a month or so to see if they can kind of get things back. We didn't really get any of that.

Jeff Marek· Host1:27

Right. Um, it do- I, I asked