Welcome to a bonus edition of 32 Thoughts with John Chaka and Matt Sundin.

I know we don't need a long preamble here.

You want to hear what they have to say about roster construction, issues of the day, and things like that.

But I do want to mention that with Cheka,

I started with the story reported Monday

that he was accused of tampering by someone else.

It doesn't sound like it's going anywhere,

but it has larger implications, I believe.

Initially, I was told a relative of his contacted a former employee

of statletes, the analytical company the family owns. That employee now works for an NHL team,

and the team reported the contact to the league. Then I heard another story that a different

NHL club complained about improper

contact, but when I reached out to that team, they denied it. Whatever the case, it doesn't

appear that it's going anywhere. What someone said to me about it, however, was interesting. He said

it indicates Cheka's true challenge that the other

GMs are unhappy with his hiring and are going to take shots at him every chance they can. It will

make an already huge task even harder. That's where we begin the interview with the Maple Leaf's new GM. First

end the job, and already there's a tampering story. Can you explain exactly what the league

contacted the Maple Leafs about here? Yeah, it's just a tough one for me to comment on. I really

don't think there's any merit to any of that. And as far as I understood, it's been

dismissed. And it was just an allegation of some sort. Okay. One of the things that somebody said to me

was that it shows the challenge that you have, that there's not a lot of grace from the other

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