Darren Dreger

By and large, I don't know Chris Knobloch.

I think he's a good coach.

He's respected.

He's got a deeper coaching background and arsenal than what I knew about until I started poking around with those who work with him.

But you wonder about the young family that he has and things like that.

And, look, I also think that...

There's a narrative out there that, okay, maybe the stars didn't align.

So McDavid and Dreisaitl didn't necessarily align with the coaching philosophy of Chris Knobloch.

No, I think we're saying the same thing.

I don't buy that for a minute.

So we hear Connor McDavid speak the way he did and Leon Dreisaitl just...

dropped the gauntlet in his end-of-year media address, that's directed at Jeff Jackson and Stan Bowman, his general manager.

That's not directed at coaching.

That's saying, look, you took a swing at goaltending and missed.

Missed.

And a piece that you had to throw into the deal, Brett Kulak, is now a pretty big player for the Colorado Avalanche.

And it created a whole...

In our defensive group.

So a miss, right?

So how are you going to fix those roster problems?