Randip Janda
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And I think the Toronto case and the Toronto example is one now where you're going to see more teams doing that.
You're going to say, actually, hockey ops, you stay there.
There's been too much moving between lanes over the last couple of years.
We want you to stay in your lane, focus on what you can focus on.
And that seems like an aspirational role for Rian Johnson as well.
Like, I think the the conversation about experience versus first time GM is
You can go with a first-time GM.
It happens all across the league.
We sometimes look at experience and we forget about bad experience.
Not all experience is good.
I believe in second chances, but when you've got five or six individuals that are at the top of the hockey world, you have to take bad experience into the equation as well.
Now, the thing about the search and the number of names that we're hearing is
That president, that executive, that senior VP, whatever you want to call it, that's the blind spot that I don't see either.
We've heard all these names, and I know it for a time that Shane Doan was mentioned as potentially a president of hockey operations type.
But outside of that, we haven't really heard anything else.
So I think that is the blind spot.
Like, we've heard of the, you know, the Evan Golds of the world, the Maddens of the world, but...
I think one thing that they've kept under wraps is that other name.