Frank Cervelli

And I say relative compared to the massive wealth that they have.

And it feels like at least part of this was a budgetary decision to say, oh, that's the type of promotion and range of salary that you'd like to be in relative to your peers.

No, my guess is that if the Nashville Predators waited this long, that there had to be some kind of back-channeling here to at least allow him to begin to wrap his brain around everything.

and that he hasn't just been sitting here thinking about what he would do as manager of the Colorado Avalanche, that I'd imagine that, I'm not predicting transactions this week, but that he probably has a few things that he wants to figure out sooner rather than later.

One of those would have to be, and one of the biggest pressing questions would be, what do we do with Roman Yossi?

This Preds team is,

a little bit stuck in the middle.

They maybe are the NHL's poster child for that murky middle.

And they've got aging players.

They haven't made the playoffs.

They've got a lot committed to cap and yet still have some value in some of these players to begin to ship them off to turn this over.

So that to me starts with Roman Yossi.

I think he'd have the most value on the market.

it's hard to find a true difference maker.

And even if at this age, he's on the downswing as opposed to the up, there's still plenty of teams that I think would clamor for a player like him and what he can create and would going somewhere, give him a shot in the arm.

And maybe even a better question would be for a lot of these guys in Nashville, do they even want to go somewhere?

That was the one thing that kind of,

Someone like Stephen Stamkos had made it really clear.

I'm not interested in being trade bait.

I don't want to go anywhere.