Jason Bukala

Of Ryan Johnson's deal.

Will you tell our audience and tell us exactly what you know?

No, but I mean, Chayka got five.

Seven's not standard.

Chayka got five.

Three.

Three.

I mean, how do you show progress?

Like, I don't know if anyone's looked at the roster here, but like, how do you show enough progress in two years to earn an extension?

How can you possibly be looking for a hockey operations leader and then setting them up to be like, you have to show progress by 2028?

Like, it's not possible.

It's not possible with the state of this roster.

If progress looks like you're laying a good foundation for a rebuild... Yeah, but progress might look like you took on a really bad deal in order to get assets, and the player that you drafted with that pick hasn't arrived yet, and now you look like a moron.

There's going to be moments in this rebuild where things don't look great, and that might be by design.

That might be part of good process.

You can't evaluate the performance of a general manager taking over this team in two years.

Like, that doesn't make any sense to me.

Adam Foote got three years, so does the same not apply to him?

Absolutely not, because a coach isn't in charge of managing assets in a rebuild.

Like a coach, we can evaluate Adam Foote in six months.