Mike Johnson

Get him rested.

Get him healthier so his summer training...

which will take three plus months, will be unhindered by whatever recovery he's going to have to go through.

If it's not a procedure and it's just sort of rest,

It's a different kind of conversation because I also understand the athlete side where Matthew Nye is like, I want to play.

I'm not feeling great, but I'm a competitor.

I don't want to watch.

I don't want to just be icing my knee down while we struggle through this.

I want to be in the grind with my teammates.

And I respect that.

And I would have been like that.

I played lots of different times where maybe I should not have or could have used a break.

But you just keep playing because that's what you want to do.

But maybe this is one of those ones where if there was a...

really clear vision of what the rest of this year is supposed to be.

And I don't know if there is.

I'm not saying there isn't.

I just don't know if there is.

But if there was a really clear vision from Brad Trudeau, like, listen, we're going for the bottom five.

We're not going to dress players that aren't NHL players when we have NHL guys available.