Kevin Woodley

And maybe some experience dealing with NHLers, you know, back to your point that Yannick Hanson made.

And I mean, I would defer to him on all these things, frankly.

You know, like maybe some experiences, it's a good thing to have that on the staff.

It's not like Manny Malhotra hasn't been in the NHL as an assistant, as a player.

He's got head coaching experience.

I just don't think it's the end-all, be-all that it often gets made out to be.

And maybe I'm wrong on that one, but I think it's more about the right people tasked with the right jobs and then empowered to do them than it is about this guy coached this many years, and so he brings that gravitas.

And it only works.

I feel like I'm spewing cliches here, but similar to what, not that they're spewing cliche, but we keep hearing about alignment.

It only works if everybody's on the same page, top to bottom.

And if you believe that everybody's on the same page, top to bottom, then the people you bring in are going to be able to operate at least in the early years and

with a certain degree of authority in their jobs.

And if there are players that don't want to buy into that, then like I said, not as easy to do as it is to say, but he made it clear, they won't be here.

It's more of the stylistic matchups.

And I think some misconceptions about what Vegas is and how they create Vegas.

Um, yes, Mitch Marner is a consummate candidate.

Yes.

He's been exceptional, but they lead the Stanley cup playoffs in expected goals for an even strength off high danger chances, which is the metric that matters the most to me.

And traditionally both defending and creating has been the metric that matters the most to winning.

They lead in creation, um,