Sam McKee

Okay, here's what I think, though.

It doesn't come down to Keith Pelley in this case, but to Austin Matthews.

Because if Austin Matthews says, I don't want to play for him, I think he has the hammer, right?

He's the dude.

And they wouldn't want to risk losing him.

And I think that conversation is going to matter.

And I'm not saying I like that.

This is just apples and zebras to me.

Yeah, I think you've got to do some mental gymnastics to make this comparison work.

Yeah, that's fine if you don't think he's 100% because we don't know who the GM is yet.

We haven't talked to the captain yet who's a, you know, I understand.

So it's not 100%.

But you got to really twist that up in your mind to be like, those two are the same thing.

For one, you have a guy behind the bench versus people who are making decisions from up above.

The money is very different, I would imagine.

Like, Ruby here is... They owe him a lot of money.

Oh, I see, in terms of actually letting him go.

I'm thinking about Matthews, like the money that you lose if you lose him.

To me, this is a team that wants a different coach.

I don't know if you've been watching them, but they lost seven in a row since the Olympic break.