Frank Seravalli

You might as well wait and figure out what happens with Bruce Cassidy for certain one way or the other.

before pulling the trigger on Mike Babcock because he's going to be there two days from now, two weeks from now, two months from now.

You're the only team that could or would hire Mike Babcock.

Yeah.

So what I would say is we don't know enough yet, but a couple things stand out.

One, um, obviously there was some mental manipulation here that no one is happy with in, in 2026.

Um, two, obviously no physical or sexual abuse out alleged and

We're talking about a period of time in which he's had some time to think about this, and I'm certain you'd be getting a pretty squeaky clean Mike Babcock.

So with obviously the absence of charges or anything like that, it'd be really difficult to see the league presenting a pass unless the NHLPA steps up and tries to contest it.

where he's unable to work again.

How do you stop someone from working again?

I don't think it's written in stone.

I think there's a very large percent chance, 70%, 80%, that it's Gavin McKenna.

But we don't...

You don't really ever know how someone's thinking or what kind of cards they're holding.

So it's hard for me to say with any degree of certainty.

And I know the rest of the league is sitting here wondering the same thing.

Right, and so what that signals to me is that they're probably going to be pretty aggressive this offseason.

They clearly did some of their shopping already with Artemi Panarin.

They're looking to try and land a replacement for Andrzej Kopitar.