Bob Stauffer

Sure glad I dropped that poli-sci in history class at the University of Alberta back in 1989.

You know what I'm saying, Al?

There you have it.

Oh, yeah, well.

Yeah, because it's always useful 30 and 40 years later.

Yeah, sure it is.

All right, look, we talked earlier in the day.

I know you've been watching.

You cover the Washington Capitals, but you've always got, you know, you're from Edmonton.

You get the whole oil country thing.

You're watching the situation unfold with Mike Babcock, which currently, by the way, is on hold right now.

The league's got to look into it.

There's some perception out there, you know, a lot of people are like,

There's a certain segment of the population, and it's not a small segment.

They hate this.

They hate him getting potentially another opportunity.

And, again, the NHL still has to do a full investigation at the bequest of the NHLPA.

Some people said, well, the only job he could have gotten was Columbus.

But I seem to recall, Al, was Mike Babcock also not in the mix at one time in Washington?

All right.