Brian Lawton

Colorado was more amazing.

In terms of Quinn's, it was kind of my understanding that he had made it known how he felt.

And I'm sure...

Even though it's not the news you want, as a general manager, you just want to know what you're marching towards.

I always have kind of one rule with this type of stuff.

As a former agent, no answer is an answer.

Because you have to figure out the path forward.

In Quinn's case, I think he was clear that he wasn't going to resign.

You'd have to ask Jimmy Rutherford to clarify that.

I certainly took that to be by his quotes.

And he made the best decision he could.

Is that going to work out to be a decent deal for him?

Well, you have to kind of measure it against the alternative.

He stays and then he walks and then you get absolutely zero for him.

So by that metric, he hit a grand slam.

by another metric of, you know, you don't get time a lot.

In the NHL, it's very rare that you have time in order to make some of these pressurized critical decisions.

Whenever you do, I like to default to use it because it doesn't happen all the time.

I thought that was, you know, kind of cutting things off at the pass to your point, Kipper.

Do you want to know earlier so you can make a decision?