Mike Halford

You know what?

It's not great for the Whitecaps, but it's great for us.

Give me a moo, Cal.

Congrats, Whitecaps.

Director of professional scouting, for example.

That is a position on the team currently.

It's interesting because the trend in the National Hockey League right now at that executive level,

And this is very recent, but the trend has been let's get rid of these guys now and let's start the search now.

There's no need to wait until the end of the year.

The year's cooked anyway.

That's what we saw in Nashville, although they had this weird sort of resurgence where they're still fighting mathematically for a playoff spot.

we saw it in New Jersey and we saw it in Toronto and it was, if we're not sold on this guy, which we aren't, let's move now and let's start our search as soon as possible.

There's no need to wait for game 82 to be in the books to make this formal announcement.

Let's do it now.

Now,

counterpoint is that trends are just that they're trends.

It doesn't necessarily mean it's right or wrong.

It's just the way that a bunch of regimes decided to do something.

And I think one probably has to do with the other.

It's that, Hey, these guys have made this move and they're out there looking at executives that we might be interested in.