Daniel Sedin or Henrik Sedin

You know, hopefully they pull out of it because I want Bedard to have good things.

But, I mean, it's been ugly.

My point being, like, this organization, I think, needs to, like, and you hope that this can be part of the start of it, take a really hard, long, reflective look at what they've done.

And we saw, by the way, episodes of it

just the past six months I mean allowing an outgoing president of hockey operations and general manager to trade Quinn Hughes that was the thing we were talking about before the Quinn Hughes trade this isn't retrospective this is what we were talking about before it happened that should have been the first trade of the incoming hockey operations leaders especially if you're only giving them three-year contracts because then you'd have something meaningful to about like right now you sign Ryan Johnson with three-year contract

the development of Zeve Booyam, a player that he didn't pick, is going to be essential, basically, in evaluating his job performance.

That's not reasonable.

So that's the sort of thing where this organization has functioned in terms of its day-to-day governance in such a way where ownership has been a hindrance and where their impact, their inability to align the incentives of middle management with those of the wider organization, their inability to protect themselves

Honestly, to protect themselves from the interests of their own managers.

For example, Patrick Alveen and Jim Rutherford, the year that they needed to earn an extension was 2023-24.

This club's going to be paying an Oliver Ekman-Larsen buyout for another five years, in part because they needed that cap space to take an all-in shot.

It was a fun all-in shot.

Kudos to them.

But did it serve the organization's long-term interests?

Or did it serve the interests of their last management team?

You know, like, and I'm not even being critical because of course you're supposed to look out for yourself and your team.

Like, that's your job.

Your job is to survive in hockey.

Job number one, keep your job.

Right?