Darren Dreger

No, I chuckle for a couple of reasons.

Uncle Jerry makes me giggle every time I hear it.

There was an incident, and I use that term appropriately.

This is going back a few years ago at a Board of Governors meetings where Pierre Lebrun felt like he had a big scoop.

And that Jerry, Jerry Bass.

That was a slip right there.

He was about to present to his owners that succession plan.

Like, here's what we're going to do.

It's going to be my suggestion is Bill Daley, blah, blah, blah, whatever it was.

And so Pierre, I mean, he's a pro.

He talked to Bettman multiple times over the course of that two, three-day meeting span to a point where Bettman was getting sour with him.

He was getting surly.

And he was like, do not report this.

Do not say this.

You will make yourself look foolish.

But, I mean, let's be honest.

You know, given everything that Commissioner Bettman has done, the billions of dollars that he's brought to the league and to the owners, the age he's at, you know, he's got –

you know, a flock of grandchildren, all of those things, you know, and big business corporations do this all the time.

You have to have, you know, a corporate succession plan in place.

So I don't know.