Jason Bukala

And you do a new deal, but you give them five years so that they don't feel pressure in 18 months to show progress and earn their next contract.

Welcome to the world of competitive sports.

Welcome to the cost of being a world class organization.

Like, I don't know.

I'm sorry for trying to hold the organization to a standard of what would a world class championship level hockey club do?

But this is what not what a world class championship level hockey club would do, even in the midst of a rebuild, especially at the start of one.

Five-year deal.

Kent Hughes.

Boom.

Boom goes the dynamite.

Five-year deal in 2022.

Bill Zito, five years, 2020 in Florida.

I can't find the Verbeek report, but hired February 3rd, 2022.

And they assigned him to his second contract, 2026, April 10.

So that's four years later.

That suggests to me five years is industry standard.

Like, I've now found you three.

Rick, find me the three-year first-year general manager.

Maybe I should have turned this around on you.

Craig Conroy, three-year deal.