Merle

He definitely walks by you and says, give me a new contract.

Like, I could just see him doing it.

Well, you're the same age, right?

Because I think people think that.

I think a lot of people think Sid is a part of decision-making.

Yeah, you haven't worked with biz yet though.

You've mentioned the Sioux a lot.

And reading about you a little bit, I had no idea you were the stick boy.

I think your grandfather coached the team.

So it was kind of like a fabric of who you are.

And then you become the GM you mentioned.

all of a sudden when you were really young, your name, you know, it, it started appearing a lot more and like this kid that's coming up in the ranks, he's young.

And a lot of that was analytics.

And I think, you know, you were one of the first guys, at least maybe for, for guys like us that had heard about analytics and where the game was going.

And,

I also, I was reading you were the youngest certified agent with the NHLPA at one point.

So where did analytics kind of first come onto your radar and become something that you would, you know, look to kind of implement moving forward in what you do?

So when you talk about analytics, like a guy like Anthony Manta, 32 goals, it was a one-year deal at two and a half, or a trade for Chinnikov, are those guys where you're seeing underlying numbers, like there's more there, or is that more just you're watching their play and it's not necessarily analytical?

The Manta one's crazy because we talked last week about Muse calling him in the summer and saying, you're going to score 30 this year.

So obviously you guys as a group saw something and he's just lived up to it.