Darren Dreger

Well, with all due respect to Darnell, I mean, I think you'd see the cricket emoji, to be fair, and only because of the contract and what is remaining for Darnell.

Now, there will be some level of interest.

I did have a couple of general managers who shall go unnamed, not necessarily general managers who could be interested, but said that the interest will come, but only if Stan Mulman and the Edmonton Oilers are willing to take back a bad contract or bad contracts.

Otherwise, how do you facilitate a deal of that magnitude with a cap hit of that significance?

But this has been days in the works.

I mean, the speculation, fellas, has been out there targeting Darnell Nurse for longer than that.

But as I reported earlier, it was Darnell Nurse who initiated this about a week ago.

They basically submitted their request with a list of teams.

What we don't know is how many teams are on that list.

And maybe they get to a place where if Darnell really wants that change, he's going to have to expand that list to develop further interest.

Yeah, well, right now it's in the hands of the National Hockey League, unless Mike Babcock takes it out of the league's hands, or the Edmonton Oilers say, okay, well, we can't wait around forever here, so we're going to cut bait, we're going to move away.

If either of those things happen, then the National Hockey League doesn't have to conduct its investigation.

It was the NHLPA.

that said, look, we need to find out exactly what went down in 2023 amid the allegations that Babcock, then the head coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets, invaded players' privacy.

We know some of it.

Some of it has been reported on.

But is that everything?

And I can tell you it's not everything.

I don't know how serious it is.

There's been some speculation around it.