Elliott Friedman

You know, the whole thing with Alvin is I just think it came down to this.

If Rutherford was out, then I think Alvin was going to be – the choice was hand him the job or not.

And I think ultimately ownership decided not.

And, you know, it's the same thing I kind of feel about Foote.

I think a lot of the problems here –

they might take some people down with them.

I don't know that it's entirely fair.

I don't know that it was in complete control of everybody who might be sacrificed here.

Unfortunately, that's the way this business goes sometimes.

The most difficult thing for me to predict is what ownership will do because, Kyle, the ownership's history is familiarity.

This is the first time

in 20 years where they've made a change and they didn't have someone immediately there to do it.

When they fired Dave Nones, they had Mike Gillis ready.

When they fired Mike Gillis, they had Trevor Linden ready.

Linden left, but when they fired Jim Benning, they had

Jim Rutherford ready this is the first time they've done it without an obvious successor so there is no basis to completely predict what they're going to do you know I think Ryan Johnson I think if it was up to Rutherford this is my guess he would recommend Johnson and say it's his time

Last year, they basically ripped up his contract.

They gave him a new one.

They gave him a raise.

They said, you're here.