Brian Burke

Did you search your name?

I mean, you're trending and you have been trending for a couple of days.

Did you indulge yourself in going through the comments about you?

Okay, well, we have.

So one more that I want to show you here, and this comes from a former assistant general manager with the Florida Panthers, Steve Weir.

What's neat is that when he eventually became a GM, Eric Tulsky, the outsider's outsider, surrounded himself in a front office with women and men just like him, bloggers, lawyers, computer people even, and it worked.

Is that accurate?

The one name that comes to mind when you say that, and by the way, I think a lot of people feel the same way.

A lot of people watching this will say like, you know, thank you for

recognizing people that haven't just followed that traditional I played and this is going to be my path and eventually I'm going to work in a front office.

But the idea that there are other people to be seen and valued, everybody holds a piece of the puzzle.

We've all heard that one before.

The one name that I keep coming back to

is Ellen Etchingham.

And, um, I will, by the way, Eric, uh, never forgive you for that blog now being off the internet because it was my favorite blog to read a theory of ice, uh, which was brilliant, just a brilliant hockey blog.

Um, how does Ellen, I'm super happy for her.

How does Ellen Etchingham find her way to the scouting department of a Stanley cup champion team?

Are they, I always imagine that Ellen Etchingham's scouting reports are profoundly different than everybody else's.

She's like bluntly one of the most creative people and thoughtful people and educated people I've ever met in my life.

are they profoundly different than other scouting reports that you've read?