Frank Seravalli

And my team had some pain that they experienced and were able to draft second overall.

It's been really abundantly clear watching, to me at least, that Nevis has some real ability.

I'd want to exhaust that question and answer it over a full season of play where I'm in lockstep with the coach and the rest of the organization on what he is and isn't.

before I'm moving on from him.

So, so Frank, boil that down for me.

What exactly do you mean?

I mean, I'm getting rid of all the other guys who are just bystanders in the New Jersey Devils lineup and aren't part of the future plan and making sure that I'm answering that question with clear purpose and detail before I'm saying, well, you know, he could have been a fit there, but Siegenthaler and Kovacevic were in the way and clogging up his playing time.

Hmm.

or whoever it might be.

I'm not picking on those guys.

I'm just saying like, get them out of the way so you can properly evaluate.

It does seem to be pretty close to that.

Now, I mean, obviously not willing to make a declaration today, but

But also the fact that we haven't heard anyone else being in for an interview or, in fact, even an interview process taking place that would lend itself to believe that, as Ryan Johnson hinted at, the Canucks have an internal candidate right in front of them that they need to take seriously.

And clearly they're doing that.

And that body of work, the track record from...

the amount of years that they worked together and interacted, there's clearly a trust factor there that I think is critically important in a stage that the Canucks are about to embark on of really trying to redo this team's culture and get it right and set in place some non-negotiables that he's kind of the perfect guy to have from that standpoint.

Now, the next question just becomes, of course, if this does happen and this is a fait accompli, that

The next thing is what happens at the draft.

Yeah, I mean, I don't even know if it's like trade-down opportunities.