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They understand salary caps right away because they work within them.

They understand contracts.

They understand everything.

They've worked with people's families because agents, a lot of them, manage.

That's all they do is manage people.

So you look at Alvin.

You look at Montreal's situation.

Bill Zito was an agent.

Jeff Jackson was an agent.

There's options other than just, hey, this guy's... And that's what I think is important.

Let me ask you guys this, and I thought about this when I heard the news about Tree.

The timing of this, it kind of made sense in the sense that whoever the new person coming in needs to know this team right now and needs to develop a relationship with Austin Matthews and William Nylander and take a look at all of these types of things because there's decisions to be made in the offseason.

A lot of times if you hire somebody just before the draft or in an area where –

Pretty much your draft list has been set.

Free agency is two weeks away, and what are we doing?

A new manager coming in can't really put their stamp on the team because you haven't had time to settle into your skin in your new environment.

The timing is never great to let anybody go.

Mm-hmm.

But I think that it's just interesting they do it on a Friday night.

Or was it a Friday night?