Jamie McLennan

It might be a combination of all that, O. And what I mean by that is exit interviews, I guarantee you, Keith Pelley probably talked to some of the players.

Regardless of whether they should weigh in and on or not, those are the guys that are going out there to play.

I think you look at it analytically.

You talk about it, I know you don't want to hear it, but the last two years, the difference between year one and year two was goaltending.

Goaltending propped up some of the things that may have gone deficient.

This past year, they were injured and they weren't good enough.

But at the end of the day, I don't think you choose a new coach until you figure out

what your roster is going to look like.

And that's the one thing.

That's why they're going to have a wide search.

You don't just hire a coach today.

I think you've got to hire the coach for the roster that you're building because it might be a young progressive guy if you are going to retool.

I understand that, but what I'm saying is I was defensive of why they kept him because they're like, we don't know who he's coaching next year.

We don't know if Austin Matthews puts his hand up and says, I want to leave, and they're going to go young, and we need a hardened coach that just coaches straight line hockey because that's the team they're going to build in a rebuild.

I don't know if that's the case.

The point being is they've deemed Kraber Ruby's out.

They're going to head in a different direction.

And John Czajka's putting a stamp on the organization.

I agree.

I agree.