Frank Corrado

That's the kind of guy that can sit in front of Keith Pelley or sit in front of the board and say, you guys want A, B, and C, but I'm telling you it's X, Y, and Z.

And if we can't get on the same page, I'm fine.

I'll go do whatever else that I'm doing because I'm very successful at it.

Whether that means you're an alumni or not, to me, that's the best person for this kind of job.

Not someone who can be influenced by, I need this job because this is where everything's riding for me.

Go ahead, yeah.

I get it.

It's interesting on Gillis because he's been out of the game so long, but he's been in these situations where things have popped up, like Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh came up years ago when Hextall and Burke got that job, and it was this weird thing where Gillis' pitch deck...

to the ownership group, it leaked online.

And you could go through all the different pages of what his philosophy is on team building and technology and scouting.

And so I don't think he's just been kind of waiting around doing nothing fishing.

I think he's probably, he's been very successful as an agent, as a president and general manager in Vancouver.

And with what he had to deal with, with that Vancouver situation,

sphere, ownership, fan base, all that kind of stuff.

Price says, I'm going to pick my, I'm going to pick my spot.

Like I'll, I'll wait for my shot.

And if it's not exactly what I want, I'm not going to do it.

And at the end of the day, like you guys, like if you were in ownership's position and you had three options in front of you, one guy's given you the path of least resistance.

One guy's given you the path of most resistance, uh,