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Carter Hutton drops by the program at the top of the hour.

A little tour around the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs.

We're down at the conference final now, folks. Finals now, folks. But if you're listening to a show like this, watching a show like this, you already knew that. Mark Spector joins the second hour as well. We'll go through what's next for the Edminton Oilers and how well they stack up against the juggernaut Dallas stars. In the meantime, Kristen Shelton joins me from ESPN. On the Craig Barube story, today, Kristen, introduced officially as the new head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Kristen, how are you today?

I'm good things. Jeff. How are you doing?

I'm well. Okay. Before we get into Craig Barubei, have you made your list when Brad for Living came came out and said i spoke to nine people have you

started to make your list of who you think the nine are we can knock down todd mcclellan we can

knock down gerard galance we all do wonder about if there was a conversation with dale hunter

at the london nights have you started to make your list i I mean, in my mind, I just thought there just

wasn't a whole lot of time between you fired Sheldon Keith on May the 9th. And you hired him on

Friday and you're, you met with Barube extensively, apparently. We know you and you're saying

you met with up to nine people. that's that's a lot of people

i i do wonder how many of those were just sort of quick phone calls just check-ins yeah just checking

in like yeah yeah you up text like you interested yeah hey you up j woodcroft you up it's

two 30 brad what are you doing i can call you in the morning um i i did think that that was interesting as well. And I did find, I did kind of get a giggle considering what happened the next day with the Blue Jays, how we apologize for a 459 announcement on a Friday of a long weekend, which I'm sure everybody appreciated. But other than those two things, Kristen, what were your main takeaways from this morning at the Ford Performance Center?

Yeah, you know, I think that it was really just the focus on, you know, how are you going to, you know, use this core, essentially, to get the team over the hump?

Just so many questions even for Barouba about, I mean, do you want to keep

these players? Do you think that they have it in them to eventually, you know, help the leaves

get past their postseason demons and where do you see the changes that have to happen? And it was

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