Iain MacIntyre

Maybe ownership isn't as keen on Ryan as Jim Rutherford is.

I'm fairly certain if this were up to Jim.

And ultimately, I guess the decision is going to be him, but he's got to parade some candidates before ownership and eventually seek their approval, obviously, on whoever it is he wants to hire.

If it were up to Jim, I think it would be Ryan Johnson.

But, you know, even if you...

if you have your guy and we'll see if Ryan is the guy, but even if you think you have your guy, you have to take the opportunity to, to not just look at other candidates, but listen, you know, hear, hear what other people think, get some Intel about what other people think of what went on in Vancouver and where they stand with their rebuild and what they have on the roster and what they may still need.

So that's a very valuable part of this process.

And whether it's, you know, Kevin Adams or, or Mark Bergevin or, or other people who have held that job or any number of, you know, the Sonny Meta equivalents, the smart AGMs who are around the league.

I think it, I think it makes sense to hear what they have to say and, and we'll see if who's going to be the,

The GM, I hope it gets done fairly quickly.

I think they've got a lot of business to take care of.

And the sooner they can get this process done without taking shortcuts in this process, I think the better they'll be.

They need a general manager.

They've got a lot of work to do.

Well, I hope it's not that.

Cause that just, that kind of wreaks dysfunction right there.

If you've got, you know, competing, uh, entities hiring their own person.

I think, I think what Jim was referring to is he's 77 years old and is obviously towards the end of his career.

And if there's a general manager in place, we've seen this organization before where they, where it didn't have a president.

And I think that put a lot of extra burden on the general manager.