Randip Janda

You've got some of the other recent candidates who have been in the mix in other markets, including Peter Chiarelli, Mark Bergevin.

If you go really through the list of anyone who's been a general manager recently, you could probably even add in, I'm sure there's calls being made for Ron Hextall.

Go through the whole list

smorgasbord of candidates that have experience.

So that's an easy exercise.

Um, and then I think to contrast that the real question is where does Ryan Johnson fit in with all of this?

And if Ryan Johnson was the top candidate, why has there been a hesitation to make that switch?

would that process not have already been completed last week as this change was set up from the beginning with Patrick Alvin being fired?

So I think that looms large over the whole process to me is this push and pull between experience, someone who's done the job, and someone who, you know, at least by the view that Jim Rutherford presented last week that he's not long for it,

that maybe it's kind of becoming clear from ownership that they'd prefer someone if Jim Rutherford's gone that has done this before.

I don't understand.

It doesn't make any sense to me.

Okay, so Jim Rutherford wants to do his thing and ownership clearly prefers something different if this is all accurate.

Now what?

How do these two things mesh?

And again, where does Rian Johnson fit in in all of this who appears to be a well-qualified internal candidate?

That's how I see it.

I mean, and it's not to diminish Jim Rutherford's career or demean his accomplishments.

I'm judging based on a couple things.

One, the notion that