John Shannon

Players are happy to contribute when they can.

They've got a great lifestyle.

It is an amazing story that what Vegas has been able to do.

And when you compare how in the end Colorado looked on its blue line when McCarr was less than 100% and even with injuries or suspensions, you know, the Golden Knights were able to put some quality defensemen in the lineup.

That to me was the biggest difference.

You know, we've all heard the rumors of Chris McFarland and Nashville.

Nobody will say anything.

Barry Trotz is sitting at the Memorial Cup right now having a good time.

So they've obviously figured something out.

So from that perspective, if Chris McFarland is leaving, do you dare remove another pillar of stability from your organization and the coach?

That would be a hard one for me to stomach if I was Joe Sackick or anybody in avalanche management.

You don't want...

change like that tectonic change like that particularly after you won the president's trophy if mcfarland stayed you know we've all heard also heard the stories that you know the shelf life of jared bedner's done i find it hard to believe because bob jared bedner would be out of work four minutes if not less

It would be comparable to what we saw when Bruce Cassidy got fired in Boston.

Bruce Boudreau got fired in Anaheim or Washington.

Absolutely.

And by the way, Jared Bednar did not become a bad coach in four games.

Jared Bednar was, we were talking about what a great job Jared Bednar did against the Minnesota wild four games ago.

Now, all of a sudden we're talking about Jared Bednar being removed.

Crazy.