Adam Wylde

Which isn't happening.

No.

Yeah.

Which is... Doug Armstrong is Bradshaw living with itchy feet.

Like, he... That's an establishment guy who, like, actually does stuff.

He did get an unprotected... He violently doesn't.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But like then there's Mike Gillis who I don't know if he's an analytic mind, but he's good at finding people who think like that and employing them and putting them in a position to succeed and listening to them and trusting them, which Brad for a living didn't do.

Mike Gillis has actually been really influential in the current just hockey scape, like front offices around the league.

And I say that because so many of the early adopters of hockey analytics that actually ended up getting into Canucks front offices, or sorry, NHL front offices, are former Canucks writers, right?

Bloggers, literally, who specifically covered that era of the Canucks.

And the Canucks were kind of... When Gillis got there, the Canucks could have been justified in being like, listen, you got these Sedins.

They're pretty good, but your team is too soft.

And you're going to get stomped in the playoffs every year.

You should move on.

And he came in there and he said, actually, what if we kept the extraordinarily skilled and talented players?

Yep.

And we figured out how to build around them

Which, oh, wait a second.