Randip Janda

Now...

It is necessary.

Like, whatever that role is, whether you believe it's, you know, present hockey ops, whether you believe it's a... I don't care what that is.

Regional assistant to the regional manager.

I honestly don't care.

But that is necessary in a Canadian market.

You need that degree of separation.

But Jamie, it's, you know, nothing that I've heard, nothing we've heard as, you know, as a city about who's coming in to interview for a role like that.

I just want...

it to happen at the same time.

I'm not a fan of making big decisions and leading with a coach hire and then coming with a GM or leading with a GM hire and then coming with that executive.

Like the timeline has to be the exact same in my opinion.

Well, the process is still really just kicking off in the list.

There's names being added to it, I'm sure, on a daily basis.

I think...

Well, not I think.

I can tell you what I know is that the thought emanating around the league is that the Canucks are searching for someone with prior GM experience.

So you can kind of chop up the list from that perspective moving forward.

Kevin Adams, which was of course reported yesterday, and his tenure in Buffalo certainly has a different look based on the Sabres'

winning the division.