Brad Treliving

It's increased since I've been here.

So the actual expenditure in terms of what we put into player performance, the individuals, the staff size has increased, the expenditure has increased.

So that is never an issue in terms of what we need.

I look at our sports performance stuff as our goal is to be on the cutting edge of whatever new and innovative technology is out there.

And like I said,

The fact of the matter is we've increased personnel, we've increased therapists, we've increased our strength and conditioning personnel and program.

The success

on the ice is not any or the lack thereof that we've had so far this year is not an indication anything to do with the medical staff nor is it you know i think the headline was you know the process that we're going or the process that we have right now isn't conducive to keeping players healthy i would i would push back on that

uh as hard as i possibly can because it's uh the process continues to get better i think each and every year and any any any uh description otherwise just is simply false

Yeah, I would agree.

I don't know this Dr. Bethel, but that's exactly how it works.

The coach, no member of the coaching staff, no member of the management makes any decisions with respect to players' health, players' return to play.

We have a full comprehensive system

process that is directed by our medical directors and to your point earlier the position that we had last year which I think where Jonas has gone down a rabbit hole is in titles we've gone from a sports performance director to a sports performance coordinator and then we've invested more into the actual the coordinating part has not changed at all in terms of

how we go about our process, we've increased the number of people that are actually working on the players, which

And really looking forward, I think it's the right thing to do and you're always evaluating it.

But specifically last summer when we looked ahead to this year and knowing that you've got an increased schedule, you've got games coming at you at a faster clip, we wanted to increase the number of really hands on the players.

And so, like I said, it's...

if we really wanted to dig into the actual workings of the medical staff, this is not a step back to me.

This is as progressive an operation that I've seen and will continue to be so.