Mike Johnson

Okay, well, what are you going to do with that?

That doesn't help you at the draft.

Like, there's just no guarantees he's going to give you a timeline you want unless Chayka is actually fourth full and says, I'll be flying back down here on June 20th for an answer one way or the other.

Go ahead, Noodles.

Yeah, that's in a perfect world.

That would be the case.

And I think you can make a lot of sense of...

and I'm not predicting this will be the case, but going to him and saying, hey, I'm just going to be blunt with you.

I'm spending the next two years building this organization up so that we can be a cup competitor in three years, which means, yes, you'll have to sign an extension to be a part of that,

If you don't want to be, so be it.

We'll see if there's another big-name free agent up in two years.

But that's our plan.

We are going to take the next two years to infiltrate this system with picks and prospects and youth and speed.

We're going to rework our defense.

I can't do it in one summer.

It's not going to happen.

It's going to take me two years.

But I'm going to completely turn it over, and I'm going to figure out who my two goalies are going to be.

And I'm telling you right now, it can stay in this room.

This will not be the coach in two years because I don't think anyone thinks Perubia will be here in three years.