Don Taylor

So it does happen in the same year.

This is just so late where you'd assume that Torch have almost no time to implement some of the things that he kind of wants his team to play.

I'm assuming you go in there and yeah, he's...

he's a great motivator can be um he can push a lot of buttons um so he can obviously go in and do that um but but like at that point you're not changing systems you don't really have time to to to change too many things obviously you get contacted you start watching a shit ton of video on vegas and how they play on their players so you get familiar with them more than just as a

casual hockey fan who watch all of the league or all of the teams so to speak but but still like it's like the success they're they're having I wouldn't say I was surprised because of of like how I mentioned how good they were the the level of they've gotten to might be a little bit more because like I said they were fluttering right before playoff and

But it was Vegas, Edmonton and whoever comes out of that central division you were kind of looking at at a conference final.

And that's where we are.

The only thing is like there were so many teams that were underperforming, so to speak.

And Vegas is taking a step above where they're and I wouldn't say they're overperforming, but they're definitely playing up to where we kind of had envisioned them three months ago, four months ago, maybe.

Yeah.

And that's one of those things where like you make a decision like that.

It turns out, well, you're a genius.

Yes.

And they would lose in the first round.

And now you're a goat and you're going to get fired.

It's one of those things where like, yeah, you take a gamble here because there is probably 20 teams right now who would love to have Brooks Cassidy come in and coach their team.

Like he's a phenomenal coach.

He won three years ago.

He coached his Vegas team to right at the top of the league every single year.

And even where they were, you were still looking at Vegas and in this specific is like, this might still be the team to beat, so to speak.