Jason Bukala

They're going to need to be ruthless in evaluating their own colleagues, right?

And that's what this is going to take to turn this around.

It's going to be fascinating to watch them navigate it.

With Anaheim, it was eight years, but it was five under Verbeek, right?

2022, Verbeek came in.

What preceded him was a mess.

What preceded him, like, I think there's a really important distinction between...

what Chicago has done where like your plan is to be bad for a period of time and then magically hope that you're good again.

And what Montreal and Anaheim under Verbeek have done where you're bad, but in a way where you're constantly netting additional value.

And that to me is the test, like bad with no purpose.

You might get good eventually, like Buffalo did after forever, like Chicago might hopefully if they nail this fourth overall pick.

But that's not the standard, right?

Like the plan can't just be to be bad.

There needs to be more substance to it.

And I'm sure Ryan Johnson has that plan.

I'm fascinated to hear more about it when they meet the press at some point undefined this week.

Him and Brendan Dillon, by the way.

Shout out to local kid, Brendan Dillon.

Good guy.

Both of them were amazing.