Kevin Woodley

I can live with this new world.

I think I've talked to a lot of players who came back with visiting teams after being part of this organization in the last four years.

And several of them talked about

when I talked about the noise and the difficulty of playing here because of the quote unquote noise, several of them pointed specifically to the outgoing president of hockey operations as a source of that noise, right?

Like they specifically said it like they, they, they flat out said it coming back as, and that's going to change.

Like, I think this is a good thing long run, even if it fuels us,

a lot less right like it fuels the you know the sports talk and and and fills a lot less blogs and hey i get paid by the story at nhl.com so jim rutherford was a dream come true right but um i you know i just think that right down at the player level and i don't know if it was that hey the guys in the room aren't willing to say that until they're out of the room and on another team

or maybe there was a lack of awareness about sort of the true nature of where a lot of this stuff came from until they got to another.

I'm not sure which, what the case is, but when you have multiple players point specifically to one person when talking about the noise, like I think it's a good thing that they're turning it down.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It put me in a spot.

You know, I think some of it was echoed in that athletic poll to agents about resources.

You know, for sure.

And I'll be honest with you, the guys that came into town and were surprised to find out there wasn't a practice facility after signing with the team and would express that, but off the record, even when they were here.

You know, that's definitely one of them.

Just that, you know, overall lack of

of resources in terms of tools for them to get better compared to, and you're mostly dealing with UFAs and guys who are signing and that have been in other organizations versus young guys that know what it looks like elsewhere.

The tools for them to build their game and get better and stay healthy don't match the

the standards of a lot of other NHL teams.