Elliotte Friedman

Like I'd mentioned, I thought they might have interest in Jamie Langenbrenner.

I don't even know if they interviewed him.

And I think a lot of us thought they would have interest in Brendan Shanahan.

I don't even know if that went anywhere either.

And, you know, they have a guy there who kind of leads the sports operations of their organization, Bob Myers, who's the former general manager of the Golden State Warriors.

He was the GM when they won all those championships and lost the Toronto Raptors.

We should mention Raptors 2019 NBA champions.

But he was a very successful executive there.

And I did have some people who wondered if the Devils would go down the Shanahan route because they already have Myers and kind of like that overseeing role.

They weren't sure if that was a fit.

Anyway, we'll never know because the moment I think they realized that Toronto had interest in Metta and had asked for permission to speak to Metta and received it, they just

weren't going to let that happen.

They just, they were just going to stop and say, nope, we're getting this done.

This is our guy and we're getting this done.

And I think he was the kind of candidate they were looking at.

And I'll tell you something else too.

One thing about the Devils, apparently they pay very well.

So I'm sure that they did that here too and got things done.

Well, that was the initial reaction.

Like, they're not going to have his introductory media conference until Tuesday.