Ray Ferraro

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, 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 saying,

suggesting a deal, I would think you're probably got too many crooks in the kitchen.

I would say, well, that's a good way of putting it, is that it was kind of like a bumper car.

Like it went into the railing here and then it bumped across the track and hit another thing.

All those things you mentioned were all pretty interesting items.

The fact that they don't have a president and then Keith Pelley would go in there with a...

you know a paper uh you know a a document saying about deals that they thought would be possible if you haven't been in the conversations for the previous months how would you know what deal is even possible maybe you're spinning tires you got too many people

suggesting something at the very end of the road.