Brian Lawton

It's only speculation.

So in terms of Chris Knobloch, Kipper, you've been a player.

It's not an ideal situation.

I actually think Bruce doesn't having conversations with him, but really how I read that Gord is that they're looking for somebody younger, somebody who maybe is a little bit more controllable, which can be good, but it's not what I believe in.

You got to find somebody that, you know, these guys are your field general.

They need to make tough decisions under pressure.

as far as being data driven, anybody can be data driven.

It's just a matter of whether or not you accept or believe in it.

I can tell you guys from fact

that when Dave Tippett was in Arizona, I was staying at his house during the season, and he wanted me to look at some data.

Now, this was a while ago, so I have to be careful in how I frame this.

The data was not nearly as good, but what I saw for a coach was a very low value.

I'll be honest with you, but that was quite a while ago.

So that's not fair to hang that on John Chaika.

That may have been the best information he could come up with at that time, but I didn't find it particularly helpful.

I would think in today's world, I know in today's world with the new Hawken player tracking system that, you know, the data that you can get is incredible.

The ways that you use it are different for every organization.

And clearly some organizations are doing better than others with how they inject that, embed that into their decision making process on player evaluations.

We're going to see more of an emphasis now on coaching.

I don't think it'll translate as well as it does for player evaluations into coaching.