The Leafs have won the lottery. How does that affect the Flyers? We're going to talk about it on this

week's edition of The Shootout. The first one is from Jack's complete lack of surprise.

He says, does anyone truly think the Maple Leafs will be bottom 10 again in the next two years anyway?

I think there's a really good possibility because I don't know what the hell is going to happen

with Austin Matthews.

Perhaps winning the McKenna sweepstakes makes him want to stay.

Hey man, I'm going to have a stud winger playing next to me.

He'll be good right away.

I will be able to pump in goals, play great defense, and he will be able to contribute offensively.

Depth scoring, anyone's scoring outside of, you know, the Corps 4, and now Mitch Marner is gone, the Corps 3, has been their biggest issue, especially in the playoffs.

Will they be bad again? Well, I don't know what's going to happen with Matthews.

It sounds like from Elliott Friedman and other reporting, he wants to sit down with the team and say,

what's our direction? Where is this going? He has two years left on his deal. We all know.

He's American. That's right. Captain of the gold medal winning U.S. team, Austin Matthews.

Also, who the hell wants to play in that S show that is the Toronto media?

We all heard the Steve Simmons question, right to John Chaker, right to Keith Pelley,

at the introductory press conference. It's tough there.

And it's not that way everywhere.

The NHL is not the NFL.

There's not 50 reporters in Jacksonville or Cleveland's locker room.

You know, like that's not the way it goes in the NHL.

He could easily go to L.A.

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