Elliotte Friedman

And I'll be honest with you, I had this phone call about an hour ago, Bob, so I'm still kind of processing it and what it means.

But I thought it was interesting that somebody said this to me because I would look at it the other way, Bob.

I would be like, yeah, the risks are high, but man, so are the rewards.

And it would be an incredible accomplishment to be successful.

It's just too bad I'm not smart enough or to do one of these jobs.

Sorry, June 24th.

I know what you mean.

I think everybody knew what you meant.

You know, Bob, as painful as it is and as much as this sucked this year to lose in the first round, at the end of the day, facts are facts.

You just have to deal with the – you have to make the best out of it.

It's like, you know, make chicken sandwich out of chicken you-know-what.

You just have to do that.

So you look at the bright side.

What's the bright side?

Some of your players who played a lot of hockey get downtime.

So that's good news.

You know, I think that you start making some serious decisions about the roster and who fits where and, you know, what you need to do, what you need to attack.

You know, I don't have any problem with some of the blunt commentary.

You know, we say hockey players are boring, then we can't complain when they say exactly how they feel.

But, you know, I do think, to me, one of the most interesting things, and I do think this is going to be a conversation.