Kevin Bieksa

I knew it was an agent before.

But I didn't even really know what Nones was doing or qualified other than, you know, the obvious like picking the team and at the draft.

So I don't think many players are concerned with that, to be honest.

Yeah, that's why I don't think that the players are too invested in it.

Obviously, everyone's looking at it from their own standpoint.

How is this guy going to affect me?

Does he like me?

Does he know my agent?

How does that all work?

Well, I'm an advocate of Mike Gillis.

I think he'd be great.

I saw it firsthand.

I think your teams were good.

Our teams were good, but when he came in,

Just willing to learn, willing to look for any competitive advantage.

You know, we were ahead of the curve in sports science.

We were going over, we were getting sleep doctors, we were hiring people from AC Milan in Italy and bringing them over to implement protocols on the art machine.

We're one of the first teams to do that.

You know, looking at our schedule, like really fighting the schedule makers on the nights that, you know, we had back-to-backs on the road and how many of those and what time zones they were in.

Like, meticulously, he would look at every single disadvantage and look for, you know, how we can reverse that.