Craig Morgan

He's just on the floor.

So they're literally carrying him.

back to his seat and apparently basically had to carry him once they arrived at the hotel for their next stop as well he was utterly trashed and when his wife Andrea found out about it she was just she was just amused more than anything because she just couldn't picture it because she had never seen some something like this from Shane in her life

That's it.

And he's that way.

with with you'll love this he's that way with the media i remember rich nairn the media relations guy here at one point walking into the locker room after practicing was way too long after and he just looked at us and he said get a room and and honestly it wasn't me it's just shane he just keeps talking he keeps engaging he does that with fans as well they'll bring fans down and he'll be the last guy out of the arena because he's just talking to fans

it's not an act either.

It's just genuine engagement.

He shocks you with the things that he knows and the ways that he can connect with people.

But yeah, that is absolutely who he is.

Well, he had told me in the past that his goal was to sit in a GM slash president of hockey operations role at some point.

Now, when you look at his experience, he worked for the league, of course, for several years.

what he would call a glorified internship, but he touched just about every area of NHL operations.

So he got a feel for how the finances work, event planning works, things like that.

He worked for the Coyotes.

Unfortunately, Alex Morello Jr.

told me he didn't think he was qualified to be an executive, which was the height of irony coming from Alex Morello Jr.,

So he was more of a sort of an ambassador, a person that they used to open doors, and they needed the ability to open doors given their ability to burn bridges while they were the ownership group here.

But then the last three years with Brad Trilliving, who he knew when Brad was the assistant GM here in Arizona, he worked closely with Brad.

And I just talked to Brad yesterday, and he told me he just – she touched every area.