Jason Brough

But yeah, with that role comes limited influence on the organization.

You can only do so much being a skills coach in Abbotsford.

I'm not trying to dismiss what they were doing, but there's only so much impact you can have.

This is, I mean, again, with great responsibility, the reward can be great, but the risk is great as well.

And there's a ton of work that goes into it.

I...

I think this is great.

I kind of wish that this had been the goal from the start.

You know?

Maybe you didn't want to put the public pressure on the scenes of having it out there right from the beginning of the search.

You're our guys and we want you to because that's a tough situation to put them in.

But this is...

I think in a very sort of nebulous way, what we've been talking about the whole time when we were advocating for Shane Doan to be in the mix or to have Melhotra and Johnson, the overriding sentiment is ex-players who are extremely well thought of, who are going to have gravitas and clout with the current players, but also are maybe chasing something from their careers that they never accomplished.

And all of them in that case is winning the Stanley Cup.

Oh, good.

I agree with this Halford process you bring up.

And what we were talking about.

Right.

What we were talking about.

Yeah.