Ray Ferraro
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Hey, it's a little different there.
We're having a little trouble with this part of the contract.
But the facilities are great, right?
They've got their own practice, right?
The facilities are good.
They're an impactful franchise.
None of that's going to change.
What I would be concerned with, I guess, is people that don't know the hockey business or don't know...
players and the evaluation of players.
I mean, like you can read the data and you should read the data and you should connect it and marry it to what your scouts say about what a, if a player has some intangible, do they have courage?
Will they fight for a puck?
Will they, or is it just all off a spreadsheet?
Because that never works.
It never does.
And I find that
That those that rely solely on data disregard anything that a hockey person would say every bit as much as some of the old, old school hockey people discard analytics.
And I think it's both foolish.
Like the value is clear in both.
But if a manager, an upper manager is coming into the trade deadline and
suggesting a deal, I would think you're probably got too many cooks in the kitchen.