Daniel Sedin or Henrik Sedin

Then what it dictates you need to do, the sorts of risks that you need to take, the level of discipline and patience that are going to be required become far clearer.

Like it's clarifying to understand

the mess that this franchise is in and how high the bar you need to get to to be relevant in this NHL is.

Along those lines, Harry Texan, do you think the new management team will lean toward declaring more difficult times are on the horizon or there is light at the end of the tunnel or some other third option?

I don't know if they'll phrase it in either of those ways, but that gets it to what you were just speaking about, right?

How much of a sense are we going to get today that the Sedins and Rian Johnson do understand that?

The magnitude of the task in front of them and the difficulty of the task in front of them.

And that doesn't mean you have to come out and be hopeless, right?

Again, there are different ways to phrase it, but there are things they could say that would be worrisome along those lines, right?

That suggest they think they're much closer than they are.

And there are things they could say, whether it's talking about patience or discipline or whatever it is, or, you know, big sweat, like...

big goals, the goal of winning the Stanley Cup, there are ways to deliver that message in a more heartening way as well, right?

So I think that question, and I don't need it to be a timeline.

In fact, don't put a timeline on it.

If we get focused on timelines way too much, it's more a big-picture philosophy of how you see this team is positioned and how much work it needs.

And...

I get why fans are nervous about that.

That's a big test.

It's a big test for the three of them today to kind of stick handle that question and give a convincing, plausible answer that lets fans know, hey, we know.

We know what we're getting into, and we're going to have the patience to see it through.