Brian Lawton

You know, it's very funny.

Cause you hear a lot of people comment on this Kipper and you heard about, you know, there was people commenting, you know, when they were vying for the Toronto general manager's job, which I was not, but I always pay attention to this stuff.

Cause I find it fascinating.

And some people end up,

basically saying what they would do.

The consensus was that you must know and the player must tell you this information.

That's absolutely not true.

You could ask the player, but it's up to him whether or not he wants to entertain that conversation or not.

You'd think it's in your best interest.

Mitch Marner just went through this and

I don't know.

I didn't see any, you know, a lot of people think you can go in there and just demand that the player tell you what they want to do or where they want to go.

And as we're finding out right now with no move clauses,

teams are handicapped in this area and this is going to kind of be the precipice of it as you see some of these elite players that start to do maybe what players haven't done in the past which isn't players generally have tried to stay with their original team

that may be changing in this new world.

I'll be fascinated to see how it plays out.

But you definitely want to know to your point, Kipper, but you don't really have a mechanism to drive a definitive answer.

Yeah, I haven't asked Quinn this.

I was at their game the other night.

Quinn was pretty amazing, I must say, as was Brock Favre, but they did not win.