Pierre LeBrun

Should there not have been a conversation among the Kroenke family that maybe they should have elevated Chris McFarlane within their ranks?

Yeah.

To have the keys to the whole... I don't know.

I mean, listen, I get it.

Joe Sackett still has a prominent role there, too.

But I guess I still have an incomplete picture from the Avalanche point of view of what this all means and, you know, whether or not money was a factor.

You certainly hope not to hear that with a team like the Avalanche that have always been

very competitive as they've been.

But it's a huge coup for Nashville, and it's interesting.

You know, months ago, you asked me how I thought the Predators thing was going to play out.

I certainly didn't have this on my bingo card.

But I told you that they were going to not rush into it, that they were going to wait as long as they could in case something fell in their lap.

And, you know, credit the owner, Bill Aslam, for having the audacity to phone Colorado and say, can I talk to Chris McFarlane?

I mean...

Jeez, I mean, I don't know how many people would have predicted that.

Yeah, well, my colleague Darren Dreger reporting that Peter Labulette and Patrick Waugh were among the candidates getting their turn at it this week.

I know that GM John Chayka has...

I've spoken to quite a few candidates.

He started with a pretty wide net here in terms of wanting to talk to as many candidates as possible.

But all I can tell you is, as a journalist, you cheer for stories.