Jim Rutherford

He wanted to go back to the U.S., and he went.

And this is not going to be the last guy in Quinn Hughes that decides he's going to leave.

I'm going to answer it in a different way than you expect.

Some people think Quinn left here because the team wasn't any good.

He was leaving anyways, okay?

And the best example I can give you is Matthew Kachuk.

He was in Calgary.

They had a good team.

He wanted to go back to the US, and he went.

And this is not going to be the last guy in Quinn Hughes that decides he's going to leave.

And I think...

And I, I'm close to him.

I really like him.

I respect what he did in Vancouver.

He put on a good show for a lot of years, but guys work towards free agency and we should respect the fact that he had that option and he was going to exercise the option to go back to the United States.

Obviously, the new GM will make some changes.

I would suspect there will be at least three new first-year guys in.

We count Lacamecchi as a first-year guy, Kootz, and whoever we pick at the top of the first round.

We hope that that player is ready to play.

I would think that if the GM would add a couple of veteran players, hopefully good character and mentors like the guys we still have here,