Should the Maple Leafs trade Matthew Knies?
6/9/202649 min
The Maple Leafs are in the final phase of the search for a new head coach, with five candidates remaining. Jonas and James wonder if the Leafs should just wait until Bruce Cassidy is free and clear of the Vegas Golden Knights. They discuss the trade that wasn't, involving Matthew Knies to Montreal, and if the Leafs should go after Dylan Larkin? They talk about Max Domi's health, the success of Mitch Marner in the Stanley Cup Final, how Mike Babcock will fit in as the coach of the Edmonton Oilers and they remember former General Manager Cliff Fletcher who passed away at the age of 90 last week.
Hosts: Jonas Siegel & James Mirtle
Producer: Jeff Domet
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First 90 secondsJonas Siegel· Host0:00
[upbeat music] This is the Leaf Report with Jonas Siegel and James Mirtle on The Athletic Podcast Network. It is very good today to welcome back James Mirtle to the pod. James, we missed you during the Eastern Conference Final. Now, it's the Stanley Cup Final. How you feeling? You, you revved back up- Good ... after your trips?
James Mirtle· Host0:35
Good. Good. Yeah. As you know, I, I think you've, you've covered some of those, right, where you cover a playoff series and, and your home team's not involved, so you're just, you're living out of a suitcase for the entire series, and I was, I was packed for 15 days. So, um, even, even with the series ending and I, so I covered Carolina and Montreal. Even with the series ending in five games, it was still [laughs] it's still a grind doing that, that travel, and there's not a lot of direct flights between Carolina and Montreal. So, but it was fun. I hadn't done that in quite a long time, and it was, it was a lot of fun to get kind of up close and get to know some different players and some different teams better and, and to cover an Eastern Conference Final. I think the last one I had covered was Montreal and the Rangers in 2014, so it had been, been 12 years for me doing a series like that and, uh- Wow ... I don't know the next time the Leafs are gonna be in an Eastern Conference Final, so th- this might be my future. When, when I first