Brendan Batchelor

Yeah.

It'll be interesting to see ultimately what happens and, you know, whether they can make something work with both of them or whether they have to choose one or the other.

My initial reaction is that it's like trying to have your cake and eat it too.

And that, you know, it may be tricky, uh,

to massage that with both of them um but that's not to say that it would be impossible and i guess it would depend on um you know clear communication between everyone involved about who's responsible for what um in order to make that make a ton of sense because i think

if we look back at the last few years and how the Jim Rutherford, Patrick Alvin front office operated, I think too often, it wasn't clear, you know, is Jim Rutherford making the hockey decisions is Patrick Alvin making them, you know, Rutherford stepped in and handled the Hughes trade, but was Alvin handling other trades they made, or was it a collaborative process?

Like that to me was too vague.

And, you know, for us,

outside of the organization, that's not what matters, right?

Like I don't need to know the details of the internal workings of the organization, but they need to know, they need to be on the same page.

They need to have clear communication about who's responsible for what, if they're going to try and make something work with multiple candidates and, you know, whether that's a more traditional president of hockey operations and a GM or, you

some different approach you know if they do try to go ahead with that i guess we'll have to wait and see but that to me is the most important thing is that internally everyone's going in eyes wide open about what their role is and their responsibility would be because if you don't have that then i think you worry about potential dysfunction down the road and goodness knows in vancouver we know all about dysfunction within that organization you

Yeah.

And, you know, I heard you talking in the first segment about like trying to figure out what the missing piece is here.

And it does make me wonder if

there is another search going on for a president of hockey operations that would work above either Johnson or gold.

And, you know, we haven't had reporting on that.

And I'm certainly not the most tapped in person in terms of knowing these sorts of things, especially at this time of the year when the season's done.

So I'm just speculating, but that's the, the other thing that I would look at and say, okay, if they've decided one of these guys who at the NHL level as a GM is inexperienced and

is going to be their next guy.