Dominic Sramaty

So that's that.

I do think they asked for permission to speak to him and they were rejected.

I mean, everybody listening to this knows what I have reported over the past couple of days, that I think they're working on a Matt Sundin, John Chayka combination.

And it's a matter of Sundin agreeing to a contract and to what they have planned for him.

Because I do think...

At the beginning, everybody was kind of like, let's bring you back into the organization.

And then it evolved into, we want you to have a bigger role.

And I think everybody had to understand everybody else's expectations of what this was going to be about.

As last I heard on Thursday, there was still confidence that this was moving in a proper direction.

But again, nothing is done until it is done.

You know, there's been a lot of reporting over the past couple days on this.

I've been working on a lot of it myself.

You know, the biggest questions that I've been asking is just about,

I have a lot of notes from Chayka's time in Arizona and what people said back then.

And I'm trying to go back to some of those people and say, okay, this is what was then.

You know, how do you think it's different 10 years later?

Have your opinions softened?

Have your opinions changed?

Do you believe this has a chance to be different?

And, you know, I think the biggest thing is that there's a reason that 26 year old people are not hired to run these kinds of companies because you don't have the life experience that