John Chayka

How are you going to dig down and drill down on the culture that's already here?

Are you just going to have to ask around, get to know guys?

Have you spoken to Austin Matthews, William Nylander about what's up here and what's been happening?

How are you going to find all these things out?

sharing our thoughts learning seeing if there's a you know shared common vision and and you know charting a path forward john keith pelly in a roundabout way a few different times thinks that with some of the cornerstone pieces as he labeled them with some additions and and possibly being healthy that this team can turn it around and and get back into contention of some sort i guess for the stanley cup next year do you share in that belief was that

a big part of the interview process, what your thoughts were on this team and how quickly they could turn around if that's even possible.

Some think it's not.

Okay, but you said the guy from the draft lottery is already on... He's the inspiration for the list.

He's the Rushmore of ponies.

Exactly.

But where does this one...

Somebody sent a tweet to me that said, I can't take this seriously watching Gino Foligno ask the GM.

Joe from the Bridge.

Get a Gino Foligno clip coming into the next segment.

Yeah, I was standing beside Mats, and he kept telling me how he's not going to win, it's not going to happen, and I kept trying to keep him optimistic, and he's a lucky Swede, so we got it done.

You know, the nice part is we just started.

So, you know, when we have a plan, kind of everything about building out the organization, you know, we didn't have a plan in the draft yet.

And so we were knew that there was optionality of what would happen.

And obviously there was a wide range, you know, from winning, which we ultimately did to losing the pick even.

and we were kind of thinking about and planning for all of those circumstances so obviously the best outcome possible happened and you know it's luck's you know a funny thing and you need it to have success long term and that's a big one.