Frank Seravalli

And I would argue on a larger scale that for the most part, the way NHL front offices have been designed is like incredibly broken.

It doesn't make any sense the way that things are structured in my view.

Not really.

I'd rather keep that to myself.

Let me tell you, I'll just give you, I'll give you something for free.

Sure.

The notion that one of your assistant GMs is the person who runs your minor league operation.

I don't know that that makes any sense to me.

All right.

Just have that person just be, I'm just the GM of the Abbotsford Canucks.

You don't like, you don't need to be an assistant GM to have that title.

Have your assistant GM be someone that actually impacts your NHL team.

Yeah, the Preds have been kind of all over the place.

So they've had a couple candidates or a few candidates, I think Scott White, Bill Scott from Edmonton, and Brett Peterson from Florida, all in for multiple in-person visits.

And in fact, I think they asked one of them to bring their spouse in.

It had gone pretty deep in terms of the sort of get-to-know-you phase.

And while that has happened, sources indicate last week conducted a new candidate process

introductory call.

And then Tom Fitzgerald is scheduled to come in this week.

So the Preds have been like a little bit in fits and starts.