Brian Lawton

In this case here, you know, it's hard to ignore the noise from the season.

If you're a general manager, you know, it's quite well documented that several times, and this is the world we're living in now, but several times those issues or issues about the coaching had happened

kind of indirectly been raised.

So I can't imagine if you're Stan Bowman, you also weren't aware of this.

So then you have to figure out where do you go from here?

Not a ton of guys available out there right now that I think people would have as that A plus coach.

Bruce Cassidy would be one of those people.

But what really threw this off is that you always wonder how do people hear or find out about this?

You know, as a general manager, Gord, you know, you call, in this case, Kelly McCrimmon, maybe George McPhee, either one of those guys would be fine, and you ask for permission.

And that's the start of it.

You don't want to get it in writing.

You're then going to have a conversation about does it make sense for the team that's letting this person go kind of predetermine what you would pay them.

There's just a lot more that goes into this than people think.

But in this particular case, it's never ideal when other people find out about everything that a hockey operations department is doing.

I think it has to be somebody that has a lot of cache.

If I, I'm thinking about logically about, you know, how you're connecting the dots.

And if my memory serves me correctly, Connor did not win in junior with Chris as his coach.

I don't know what that means.

And you can correct me if I'm wrong.

Anybody on the show.