Brendan Batchelor

Not really.

I don't really discriminate when it comes to pasta, as you can tell by looking at me.

Not me.

Model of fitness.

To me, it has more to do with the sauce that you're pairing with it.

But ultimately, are not all pasta shapes just the same thing in a different shape?

And so ultimately, do I really care whether it's spaghetti or spaghettini or rotini or bow tie or whatever?

No, not really.

I was going to say, we're not even a week into the offseason and we're already at pasta shapes.

You guys must be in top sledding here.

Yeah, I think I'm encouraged by the amount of noise around it and not that the organization would want there to be a lot of noise around it.

But if you're going to declare that you're going to conduct an exhaustive search to find the next person to head up your hockey operations department.

then you want an indication that it is exhaustive.

And it seems like it is from the number of names that have been out there, the fact that there seems to be a lot of interest in it, which I know was some people sort of wondering about that.

At the end of the day, it's still a Canadian market.

There's still only two.

32 or only 32 jobs out there to be an NHL general manager.

So the fact that it's sought after, the fact that the Canucks seem to be casting a wide net and looking in different areas too, right?

Like not being solely dedicated to,

former general managers, but some young forward-thinking names have come out as well.