Ryan Johnson

And another reason, too, for us as former players and Ryan, too, being part of this organization for such a long time, to Danny's point, when you left those games, and you guys were there, too, I mean, how many...

fan bases would have the wave going around the rink the last game of the season after such a bad season.

Because I think they saw something that changed, and that's why we're very excited going forward.

I would say no.

I mean, we talked to a lot of those people regularly, but not about this specific role.

And the reason why we felt so strong about doing this without maybe reaching out to some of those people is, like I said before, we didn't have to sell any plan or any vision.

There was something that we agreed to lead.

And that was one of the reasons why we felt so strong of doing this.

We're going to be aligned toward this point.

We're going to be aligned.

We're going to be committed to do a great job.

And if we had to sell something that we had to fight for, it would have been a different story.

Yeah, I'll start.

When we got the offer to step on board, obviously, Ryan and Evan was still left.

And we talked to ownership.

We talked to Jim about the candidates before them.

We talked about Ryan and Evan, what they brought to the interviews before that.

And we were part of the last two interviews.

So we spent a day with Evan, spoke to him in depth, and with Ryan, too.

And then, I mean, this is not a decision you take lightly.